Talk Like TED

Presenting has always been something I've struggled with. If I'm well prepared and know my stuff, then I'm not at all scared - but when I don't invest the time it shows. Talk like Ted dives deeper into the core of the presentation - focusing on adding pathos, logos and ethos to your talks. I like the idea of sharing memorable experiences and novel statistics as a way to stand out as well.

Presenting has always been something I've struggled with. If I'm well prepared and know my stuff, then I'm not at all scared - but when I don't invest the time it shows. Talk like Ted dives deeper into the core of the presentation - focusing on adding pathos, logos and ethos to your talks. I like the idea of sharing memorable experiences and novel statistics as a way to stand out as well.

This book has its good points and confirms what we already know about public speaking. As a remInder to focus it is good. But it is written in a way that really puts me off the author as a selfy, pompous guy who needs to get into name dropping and bragging to prove his qualifications. After reading the book, I find myself worrying that now every public talk will sound like a TED talk, whereby we devalue the novelty add value of TED talks. The more TED talks we have, the less value single talks have.