Tristan de Montebello
16 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 13, 2024 by Tristan de Montebello · across every show →
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Oct 13, 2024
De Montebello: High-conviction speakers win idea adoption over better ideas
“The vast majority of people actually are not truly standing behind their words and their ideas, and what that does is that the people who speak a lot and feel a lot of conviction, their ideas go through more often than the others, and you'd want ideas to stand…”
Oct 13, 2024
Oct 13, 2024
Montebello: Every presentation slide must have only one core takeaway
“So if you have a talk where you're using slides, Use it for the whole talk, but then for every single slide, ask yourself, what is my one thing? And you might have, ah, some support there as well, but if you don't have a one thing for each slide, either the sl…”
Oct 13, 2024 negative
De Montebello: Watching yourself on video hurts public speaking practice
“I'm not very much a fan of actually watching yourself on camera, on video, because again, this is an inner game, not an outer game. So when I watch myself on video, I see the outside, which can be useful for certain things, but the fundamentals are inside”
Oct 13, 2024 positive
De Montebello: Prepare presentations through iterative speaking rather than writing scripts
“So what we're doing with the accordion method is instead of Preparing our talk by writing. We're going to prepare our talk by speaking, and we're going to do so in a very specific way where we're going down the accordion to create extreme clarity and to unders…”
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De Montebello: Lack of speaking enjoyment indicates you are doing it wrong
“I see enjoyment as a barometer. If I'm doing things right, I'm probably enjoying myself. If I'm doing things wrong, particularly with speaking, because again, this is something we're naturally evolved to do. So if we're naturally evolved to do it, it's not som…”
Oct 13, 2024 positive
De Montebello: Looking up while pausing conveys confidence and prevents interruptions
“If instead you switch that up and you start thinking up, I think up and to the right, but you can think in any direction you want, but as long as you're looking up, You actually look thoughtful by default. So suddenly you're looking thoughtful. That means you …”
Oct 13, 2024
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…”
Oct 13, 2024
Montebello: Audiences cannot tell when a speaker is feeling internal insecurity
“Because I can tell you right now, nobody can tell. People cannot see what you feel, even though it feels that way when you feel really, really strongly. But people can't see it. You're just looking like a normal speaker, competent and confident. But internally…”
Oct 13, 2024
Montebello: Focus talk prep on audience memory, not what you say
“And the mistake that most people do when they're preparing a talk, a presentation in all hands, a meeting, whatever it is, is we tend to focus more on what we want to say Than what we want our audience to remember. So the mindset shift here is stop focusing as…”
Oct 13, 2024
Oct 13, 2024 negative
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…”
Oct 13, 2024
Montebello: Staying in character builds speaking confidence through positive reinforcement
“If you start staying in character and ending strong, naturally you're going to be reinforced by this behavior. And you're going to realize, oh, I didn't need to break character. I didn't need to hedge every time I spoke. And that's going to give you much more …”
Oct 13, 2024
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…”