Ted Talk the Art of Not Giving a F
My TEDx Talk on the Magic of Not Giving a F*ck Has viii Million Views (and counting)
Here are 5 tips on how you tin go at that place too
And then I did a TEDx* talk, and I'thousand sharing it here along with v tips for anyone who finds themselves in the aforementioned position I did nigh a year ago when the idea of speaking for ten minutes in forepart of 1,000 strangers was a) purely theoretical and b) moderately terrifying.
You can sentinel the video HERE . Information technology's pretty awesome.
TIP #1: BE PREPARED
When TEDxCoconutGrove reached out to me most speaking at their 5th annual conference, the commencement thing I did was electronic mail Dr. Emily Nagoski, author of Come as You Are, friend, and TEDx alum. I told her the whole affair made me a little nervous, and she told me the hugger-mugger was simply to prep my ass off. What she really said was, "I'm certain you tin can handle it because y'all are constitutionally incapable of not doing your best." (She wasn't incorrect, but still . . . a thousand people???) With her pep talk in my back pocket, I took a deep breath, said yes to TEDx, and embarked upon ten months' worth of writing, revising, and memorizing — plus collaborating with Nadine Hanafi of We Are Visual on a gear up of slides, which meant practicing my talk with the slides — and also practicing my talk nude, intoxicated, and in front end of a eating house full of bored, Spanish-speaking wait staff. I'll allow you lot wonder whether I did all of those at the aforementioned time.
TIP # 2: DON'T REINVENT THE Bike
The other matter I did afterwards I accepted TEDxCoconutGrove's invitation was download Chris Anderson's TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking. Ultimately, it didn't tell me anything I didn't already intuitively know, only I think it'southward probably very helpful for people who aren't every bit used to writing out arguments and/or hogging the conversation at dinner parties. (Yeah, so what? I'g an attention whore — it makes me a good public speaker.)
For me, writing a TEDx talk was similar to writing every article or essay I've washed for places like Marie Claire , Cosmopolitan , Harper's Bazaar , or Medium — and there was no need to get fancy with it. You simply have to make an argument, get in compelling, and make information technology fit a pretty strict word count. In this example, my contact at TEDx advised me that a one,500-discussion text would come up in around 10 minutes spoken, so that'south what I aimed for. Some folks at my conference talked for near twice every bit long, and all I tin say is, I'm glad I didn't have to do twice the memorizing, because we would have run out of hot h2o if I tried to get through a xx-minute rehearsal in the shower every solar day.
TIP #3: YOU Exercise You
The gentleman who went on phase earlier me was a lawyer who spoke about torture in Cuban prisons. And he was accordingly serious, equally was a adult female whose talk centered on the untimely death of her husband and daughter. In my case (and befitting my "brand"), I wanted my speech to be funny. Your topic and tone should lucifer, and they should besides be organic to who yous are. A lawyer who goes out there and tries to do stand-up comedy about Fidel Castro is probably going to autumn flat.
If y'all have the opportunity to collaborate on multimedia, this tenet should extend to your slide show. Nadine and I wanted my slides to complement the content and style of the talk, and I think that's a big office of what made the total presentation so successful. If I tried to do ten minutes on "not giving a fuck" with a bunch of circuitous graphs or inherently un-funny illustrations, the overall upshot would have suffered. Instead, I got my very own "fuckberg" out of the deal.
TIP #4: BETA TEST ON HUMANS
In retrospect, I should accept practiced in front end of more than bodily people. Because although my hubby was a patient listener, there'due south merely no way one person is going to laugh at every joke, every time — specially later on three or four run-throughs, allow alone twoscore-seven. Apart from him, a few Dominican waitresses, and the lizards who live on our terrace (a famously tough crowd), rehearsing was a relatively solitary process. Which meant that I never adult a clear sense of pacing outside of my own performance. It was 9 minutes and 45 seconds, pretty much every time. Simply the bodily talk came in at over twelve. Huh.
I did one rehearsal in the venue the 24-hour interval before the upshot, simply at that point there were only about 10 people in the auditorium and none of them were paying customers, so to speak. While I did get a sense of what it felt similar to use the microphone and look into the blinding spotlights, I didn't get much of a express joy track. In one case I was upwardly there for the real matter (P.S. DID I MENTION THERE WERE A THOUSAND PEOPLE There?!?), I wound up going over my time slot past ii total minutes because — whaddaya know? — people laughed. A lot! And yes, that was lovely, but it was likewise confusing. When yous've practiced the same words over and over once again in the same order, at the same tempo, for weeks, you lot tin easily get distracted by new reactions, lose the thread (or in my case, become a piffling too cocky), and mess upwardly in a style you accept literally never messed up once in a hundred recitations.
Simply c'est la vie. Because some other big part of giving a successful TEDx talk is existence prepared to roll with the punches.
TIP #5: HAVE A CONTINGENCY Plan
You've written a good speech — by this signal many people/lizards have approved its content — and you've committed it to retentivity. Congrats! Maybe y'all even did some light choreography, plus you've got your slide-clicking finger well-trained. Great. But what happens if the mic goes on the fritz? Or if your PowerPoint slides black out? Or you catch a super cute nude patent leather Stuart Weitzman cork wedge sandal in the plush cherry carpet on phase and fall on your face? Believe it or not, these were all things I planned for. I rehearsed not only my speech, but what I would do if there was a technical malfunction or a Jennifer Lawrence-y stumble. I'm not kidding. (I'm also not very coordinated.) Luckily, nil did go wrong, but if it had, I had a few tricks up my yellow Juliet cap sleeve…
Then them's my tips! Thanks for watching my talk (I'm assuming y'all did, considering you seem like a clever, curious individual with a yen for giving fewer, better fucks), a big thanks to TEDxCoconutGrove for putting on a bang-up show, and let's rack up those YouTube clicks, shall we?
Source: https://medium.com/tedx-experience/5-tips-for-giving-a-tedx-talk-dbe59560c1ec
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