Talk Like TED
Ratings24
Average rating3.6
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.
Although “Talk like TED” contains plenty of great advice for a first time public speaker, most of the tips presented are somewhat obvious and could be summarized in either a couple pages of text or a 20 minute video with clips from each TED talk. Nonetheless, the book does a good job discussing a myriad of public speaking techniques and serves as a nice refresher for those who give presentations or speeches quite often.
The tips in this book are solid. I used some of them as a teacher and trainer. I will use this book as a study book when preparing for future talks until I know the tips by heart.
The next things I will take on is
* telling stories
* limit the talks to 18 minutes
* use images instead of text
Carmine Gallo have studies the best TED presenters and analyzed them to see what made their talk so attractive. This books give you another eye about presentation and public speaking. You might think brilliant presentation come naturally to people with skills and talents however within this book illustrate the fact that successful speaker rehearse their talk hundreds of times. Pretty helpful aspects, secrets, tips and tricks have been covered by author about public speaking and variety of techniques that worked in real life by remarkable people.
Selling your idea and communicating effectively within working environment as well as day to day life are other aspect that have been addressed in this book.
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.