1 00:00:10,728 --> 00:00:12,138 It's 1903 2 00:00:12,438 --> 00:00:16,281 and this extraordinary guy named Teddy Roosevelt 3 00:00:16,281 --> 00:00:21,001 is standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon 4 00:00:21,007 --> 00:00:27,107 and at that time people wanted to create hotels and spas 5 00:00:27,107 --> 00:00:30,242 and turn the Grand Canyon, in 1903, 6 00:00:30,242 --> 00:00:34,211 intoa profit-making disneyland of the environment. 7 00:00:34,211 --> 00:00:37,026 And he stood and said no. 8 00:00:37,676 --> 00:00:41,347 And he created a tipping point for the environmental movement 9 00:00:41,347 --> 00:00:42,868 and for the world. 10 00:00:42,868 --> 00:00:45,785 He said: "leave it as it is. 11 00:00:45,935 --> 00:00:51,455 the ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it." 12 00:00:51,455 --> 00:00:54,204 (Aplauses) 13 00:00:54,204 --> 00:00:58,085 The world would have been a different place today 14 00:00:58,085 --> 00:01:02,811 without those words, those tipping point words 15 00:01:02,811 --> 00:01:05,002 from President Theodore Roosevelt. 16 00:01:05,222 --> 00:01:09,867 Fast forward, his fifth cousin, President Franklin Roosevelt, 17 00:01:09,867 --> 00:01:14,674 30 years later - 1933 - in the midst of a huge crisis, 18 00:01:14,674 --> 00:01:18,814 the great Depression of America, said a few words 19 00:01:18,814 --> 00:01:22,565 to create a tipping point towards healing for the USA. 20 00:01:22,565 --> 00:01:27,039 "First of all. Let me assert my firm belief 21 00:01:27,709 --> 00:01:33,378 that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, 22 00:01:34,558 --> 00:01:37,987 nameless unreasoning unjustified terror 23 00:01:38,657 --> 00:01:44,137 which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." 24 00:01:45,577 --> 00:01:47,633 The world would have been a different place 25 00:01:47,633 --> 00:01:51,548 without those words, at that time, from that man. 26 00:01:52,437 --> 00:01:56,891 So, in my 30 years of studying public speaking 27 00:01:56,891 --> 00:01:58,274 and great speeches, 28 00:01:58,294 --> 00:02:00,365 I've found that there are seven secrets 29 00:02:00,365 --> 00:02:03,739 that great speakers do, that other people don't. 30 00:02:03,739 --> 00:02:07,021 and it's my belief that every single human being 31 00:02:07,021 --> 00:02:09,982 can be a great speaker and that their words 32 00:02:09,982 --> 00:02:11,587 can create a tipping point, 33 00:02:11,587 --> 00:02:16,547 and that their words and their essencecan change the world. 34 00:02:16,553 --> 00:02:21,443 The first secret is about words and understanding that words 35 00:02:21,443 --> 00:02:24,459 can be the best, the most amazing in the world 36 00:02:24,459 --> 00:02:28,524 but they only actually touch people and communicate 37 00:02:28,524 --> 00:02:32,674 seven percent of the impact that one human being has on another. 38 00:02:32,674 --> 00:02:37,063 Voice tone, the variation in your voice, the enthusiams, 39 00:02:37,063 --> 00:02:39,671 the love, the passion that comes through your voice, 40 00:02:39,671 --> 00:02:41,530 38% percent your body language 41 00:02:41,530 --> 00:02:43,903 are you looking into someone's eyes 42 00:02:43,903 --> 00:02:46,991 or are you looking over their head and not connected. 43 00:02:46,991 --> 00:02:48,871 So words, voice tone and body language, 44 00:02:48,871 --> 00:02:51,502 those are the three vehicles, the tree pathways 45 00:02:51,502 --> 00:02:54,302 that great communication happens in. 46 00:02:54,530 --> 00:02:56,008 Secret #4 47 00:02:56,445 --> 00:03:00,705 What most people do, is that they throw so much datas out, 48 00:03:00,705 --> 00:03:02,715 trying to prove that they are smart, 49 00:03:02,774 --> 00:03:03,943 trying to get all the content out. 50 00:03:03,943 --> 00:03:05,813 Words are the seven percent. 51 00:03:05,867 --> 00:03:09,923 What is important is what is that one thing you want to leave people with? 52 00:03:09,933 --> 00:03:13,297 What is that headline? That's what makes a great speech. 53 00:03:13,330 --> 00:03:15,420 And that's what we are talking about today. 54 00:03:15,635 --> 00:03:18,175 Secret #5 is fascinating. 55 00:03:18,203 --> 00:03:22,014 If you are afraid or if any of you are afraid of public speeking, 56 00:03:22,094 --> 00:03:26,019 41% of the World, across cultures, 57 00:03:26,078 --> 00:03:29,428 is terrified almost to the point and often to the point 58 00:03:29,464 --> 00:03:32,724 of actually turning down speaking appointements. 59 00:03:32,784 --> 00:03:36,982 Wether they are political leaders, or business leaders or charitable leaders, 60 00:03:37,198 --> 00:03:39,954 they turn down opportunities to shake the World, 61 00:03:40,047 --> 00:03:41,575 because they are scared. 62 00:03:41,655 --> 00:03:43,952 There are a lot of reasons why people are scared 63 00:03:44,266 --> 00:03:46,578 but in my experience, the number One reason is: 64 00:03:46,767 --> 00:03:49,643 that we don't know what public speaking really is. 65 00:03:49,758 --> 00:03:51,286 We don't know the true definition. 66 00:03:51,601 --> 00:03:53,351 The true definition of public speaking is 67 00:03:53,351 --> 00:03:55,397 that public speaking is nothing more 68 00:03:55,949 --> 00:03:59,860 than having a conversation from your heart, 69 00:04:00,959 --> 00:04:04,504 about something you are authentically passionate about. 70 00:04:05,567 --> 00:04:07,435 If you think it's a performance, 71 00:04:07,729 --> 00:04:11,150 you are going to be a 0% you and a 100% actor, 72 00:04:11,150 --> 00:04:14,040 we don't get to see and experience and feel who you are. 73 00:04:14,338 --> 00:04:18,097 So, I want you to write the word "speech", down, on a piece of paper, 74 00:04:18,147 --> 00:04:19,632 and I want you to put a circle around it. 75 00:04:19,665 --> 00:04:21,175 and I want you to put a line through it. 76 00:04:21,208 --> 00:04:24,848 I don't want you ever, ever to give an other speech. 77 00:04:24,875 --> 00:04:26,575 That's not what great speakers do. 78 00:04:26,624 --> 00:04:29,661 They don't give a speech, they don't give a performance, 79 00:04:29,661 --> 00:04:31,381 they don't make a presentation to the audience, 80 00:04:31,392 --> 00:04:32,959 they have what? 81 00:04:32,979 --> 00:04:36,626 They have a conversation with, it's a circle. 82 00:04:36,649 --> 00:04:40,649 It brings us all together, we are a web, connected to every other person. 83 00:04:40,691 --> 00:04:42,711 And that's what great speakers do. 84 00:04:43,674 --> 00:04:45,456 When I first met Princess Diana, 85 00:04:46,432 --> 00:04:49,061 she looks me in the eye and says: 86 00:04:49,428 --> 00:04:53,895 "You know I am so scared of public speaking and I wish that I could do what Charles does". 87 00:04:53,934 --> 00:04:59,194 It was when they were actually breaking up so it was even more difficult for her to admit that. 88 00:04:59,248 --> 00:05:00,980 And I said: "What does he do? " 89 00:05:01,221 --> 00:05:05,836 "Well, he just stands up there and he tells these funny jokes and then he moves on 90 00:05:06,343 --> 00:05:08,118 and he is completly unphased by it." 91 00:05:08,758 --> 00:05:12,827 And I told her that Prince Charles doesn't have what she has. 92 00:05:13,979 --> 00:05:17,664 And what she had, was what touched and moved the world. 93 00:05:17,845 --> 00:05:20,371 People connected to her on a human level. 94 00:05:20,500 --> 00:05:23,589 And all you need to do, your royal highness, 95 00:05:23,718 --> 00:05:27,919 is just share from your heart, that huge heart that you have, 96 00:05:27,919 --> 00:05:30,572 and your guts and people will love you. 97 00:05:30,637 --> 00:05:33,387 Even through the speech that scares you, 98 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,620 they will feel you, they will know you, they will connect with you. 99 00:05:37,052 --> 00:05:39,607 And that's far more effective than giving a speech, 100 00:05:39,607 --> 00:05:42,587 than telling a funny joke but not sharing your heart. 101 00:05:45,763 --> 00:05:49,763 So, secret #6,