Public Speaking
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Sanchez: Strategic silence separates professional speakers from amateurs
“It's one of the biggest differences between amateurs and pro. Amateurs are rushy. They're like afraid of silence. They fill all the words, so you know, I guess. If you want to be a great speaker, silence is not empty. Remember, silence is like tension. It's se…”
Abrahams: Repeat Recent Remarks or Distract Audience When Blanking Out
“When you blank out, a great thing to do is to do what you do when you lose your phone or your keys, go back to go forward, repeat yourself, say what you just said before. Most of us can remember that. And that often gives us enough to get on track. If not, fin…”
Stebbings: Schools Fail to Teach Sales and Public Speaking
“School misses the two most important things, which is sales and public speaking.”
Holiday: Podcasting breeds sloppy thinking due to non-adversarial formats
“Podcasting as a medium is very enticing for, like, sloppy thinking also, because it's not like being grilled by a journalist, you know, for the most part, like, it's mostly non-adversarial, and same with most public speaking, like, you were invited, they want …”
Altman: Middle-ground preparation for public speaking is the worst approach
“There's some people who, when they like do public speaking, they need to like prepare every word and practice. Sometimes there's some people who don't prepare at all. I actually think the worst is like the middle ground.”
Kao: Public speaking is a terrible mental model for workplace communication
“There was so much of communication that operators and founders do on a day to day basis where public speaking is actually a terrible mental model. If you think about it with public speaking, it's one directional. You're sage on stage. You have one speech which…”
Cain used to lose five pounds before speeches due to severe anxiety
“I used to be absolutely terrified of public speaking, like, lose five pounds before every speech, kind of terrified.”
de Montebello: Speaking is a subconscious flow process, not conscious calculation
“Speaking was a subconscious, flow-oriented process, and not a conscious process.”
De Montebello: Filler words stem from a discomfort with pausing under pressure
“Well, the root cause of having lots of filler words or racing in your speaking is that you probably struggle to feel comfortable slowing down, relaxing, or even pausing when your mind is racing and you feel pressure. Solve that, and not only do the filler word…”
De Montebello: Memorizing speech choreography leaves speakers helpless when off-script
“The other one is you're in a choreography. And all, so it's like learning how to dance, but you only learn choreography. Well, that's all you know how to do. So if I ask you to do, I say, okay, now just, I'm going to put music on Just Dance, you're kind of stu…”
Montebello: Worrying about sounding superficial prevents you from becoming a bullshitter
“The reality is, if you're thinking that, then you have no chance of becoming a bullshitter. Because if that thought is even popping into your mind, then you're the type of person who has developed a very acute skill set of noticing when people bullshit. And yo…”
Matthew Dicks: Memorable Communicators Assume Audiences Do Not Care by Default
“The more you believe that no one wants to hear anything I have to say, unless I'm relentlessly giving them a reason to listen, that's really the difference between someone who is going to be appreciated and remembered and impactful and someone who will sort of…”
Shah: Speakers should stack multiple punchlines per single story setup
“Have a story such that you can kind of spend the time setting up the story, but then have multiple funny bits, multiple punchlines, because you've already made the investment. I've said, 75 words in order to kind of set up this context. Say something funny. Th…”
Matthew Dicks: 98% of stage nervousness occurs before speaking starts
“98% of your nervousness is actually before you begin speaking. Once you begin speaking, almost all of your nervousness falls away.”
Inability to tell stories and speak publicly stalls PM career growth
“I think it is a career staller if you can't for a product person. Can do the IC level product management job, but getting promoted is way harder if you're not good in telling stories and running the team behind the shared goal and all these kinds of things.”
Bastow: Deliver Stage Presentations to Engaged, Nodding Audience Members
“Find the people who are nodding along and smiling and going, yeah, that's me, and just speak to them. And if you find one up there, one over there, one down there, no one's going to notice that you're doing your talk just to them. And just keep delivering your…”
Fear of public speaking is fundamentally a fear of digital humiliation
“Nobody's actually afraid of public speaking. They're afraid of public humiliation, and there's no greater humiliation than digital humiliation.”
Headlee: Many People Learn Public Speaking, but Very Few Learn Listening
“Lots of people get training in public speaking. Very few people actually get training in listening.”