have you ever had trouble putting words
to your thoughts have you ever known to
yourself that your thoughts are
meaningful your thoughts have the
potential to make a difference but you
just don't know how to put a word to it
you just don't know how to get your
thought from your head and into words
this is Grace and today in this video
what I want to talk to you about is how
to articulate your thoughts better and
I'm going to give you seven powerful
techniques that you can articulate your
thoughts better in a very clear concise
and compelling way let's take a walk I'm
about to give you seven power ful
techniques to articulate your thoughts
better the first two techniques are
going to focus on the delivery of the
articulation moment so whether or not
you are going to talk from stage or one
to one these first two techniques will
show you how to deliver in a clear and
compelling way the remaining five
techniques that's where I'm going to go
throughout to talk to you about some of
the foundation of it what can you do to
elevate your confidence what can you do
to prepare for that articulation but to
prepare for that presentation right so
the first two are going to be more
technical
and the the remaining ones is going to
be more broad based on how do you
prepare for it on in terms of a from a
mindset perspective and also from a
confidence and and the word flow
perspective the first technique is to
leverage their intake style when I say
theirs I mean your audience whoever
you're talking to it could be one person
it could be a group of people it could
be a huge audience from stage and this
technique is especially important if you
don't know who your audience is because
here's the thing everybody in your
audience has a different intake Style
and what do I mean by intake style
intake style is the way that they take
in the information that you're going to
talk to them about and the way they
learn from it because it's not it's not
sufficient for you to just tell them
your thoughts it is important for them
to take in your thoughts and to be able
to learn from them so that they can take
in your thoughts and they can see its
application right so this is really
important and there are three ways three
different types of intake cyles that
people can have right and these are
equivalent to the what how they're going
to learn from it and the first way that
they could intake it is through Visual
right so if you especially if you have
the benefit of making a visual maybe a
flip chart a PowerPoint presentation or
some images give them a visual right
because these are important for people
who learn from their eyes who learn from
seeing right so that's the first intake
method the second intake method is
auditory there are some people who love
to listen to the audiobook right so some
people who love to listen to the podcast
and for those people they learn best
when they listen to it right of course
the visuals sometimes if they listen to
auditory they can be bored by it but
auditory Learners they need to hear it
right so if that is true you want to
incorporate both things into it you want
to incorporate visuals you want to
incorporate words auditory vocabulary
description words p word pictures to it
and the third intake style is through
kinesthetic these are people who need to
feel it who need to understand the way
it moves who need to understand it's
it's it's um who need to be able to do
something in order to learn from it
right so here's what you can do for
kinesthetic Learners give them a small
task give them a small piece of homework
ask them for example to close their eyes
and inv visual something ask them to
write something down right ask them to
think about something they're on the
spot and give them a few moments to do
so so when kinesthetic Learners do
something in the moment that's when they
learn the best so when you are
articulating your thoughts as you are
doing it the way to one way to
articulate thoughts better is to
leverage the intake style especially you
don't know who your audience is
incorporate all three of those intake
Styles in there if you do have the
advantage of knowing who your audience
is cuz maybe you're only talking to one
person and you know that person or maybe
you're only talking to five people and
you know them on the ballpark what their
learning styles are the intake styles
are then make sure you incorporate those
intake Styles and make your method of
articulating match their intake style
the second technique is to lean on their
behaviors what you want to do every time
you are talking to your audience whether
it be one person or a big stage you want
to vary your speech vary your tone
depending on who you want to emphasize
your thoughts to because whoever is
asking asking you a question for example
they have a different intake style and
they have a different set of behaviors
right and for example one set of
behavior are those people who are more
dominant and commanding right they have
a different they have a set of behaviors
wouldn't you agree so if that's the case
you want to give these people the big
picture right and then give them a big
picture vision of your thoughts and the
big benefits of what your thoughts are
going to do for them right make bold
Promises of why you're telling them what
you're about to tell them and use a
Stern and serious tone and these are to
address people who have that type of
behavior that's more commanding that's
more forceful that's more dominant right
the second type of behavior are those
who are more social right they could be
they're they're they generally tend to
be a bit more optimistic and what you
want to do for them when you're
articulating your thoughts is to talk to
them about the altruistic sides of your
thoughts and ideas what is the
altruistic side of it what is the
purpose how is it going to help people
is it going to contribute to the greater
good of things right and when you're
talking to this group of people use a
softer tone use a friendlier tone the
third type of behavior are those who are
more laid-back I mean how many you
probably know these people they're
really laid-back they're very casual
right and in this case what you want to
do when you're talking to this group of
people is you don't want to talk too
much and lean too much on the facts and
figures right the charts and graphs the
tables right because they're a little
bit more laid-back they just want to
have a casual conversation right so for
them what you want to do is you want to
focus on connecting to them use a tone
that's very casual be casual be a bit
more laidback and friendly as well and
the fourth type of Behavioral Behavior
are those who are analytical right these
people love the charts and graphs they
love to see the way it works maybe a
flowchart for them that's where you want
to lay down the facts and figures lay
down for them if there are numbers that
are associated with it lay those down as
well if there's a flowchart lay that
down show them in a flip chart how it
fits into the big picture of things and
that that's what their behaviors are
because they tend to be more comfortable
and they tend to intake information
because of their behaviors of going
straight to the facts and figures so
when you're talking to them you want to
use a steady tone and be more serious
right so this is the second technique
and that is to lean on their
behaviors so now the first two
techniques that I outlined to you are
more on the technical side on how you
deliver the articulation of your
thoughts for the next the remaining
techniques I'm going to share with you
what happens before that and this will
help you to build some of your
confidence to help you to prepare for
that articulation moment okay so
technique number three is to learn how
others see you now this is key because
this helps you to develop the right
mindset in order to articulate your
thoughts clearly and in very compelling
ways here's the thing the way others see
you is going to be generally the way you
see yourself so how do you see yourself
if you see yourself as constantly
someone who just doesn't know how to
articulate their thoughts someone who
has trouble speaking someone who's not
confident someone who just doesn't
doesn't know how to connect with other
people if that's how they if that's how
you see yourself then others will see
you that way too because here's what I
learned in my years of studying the
brain and Neuroscience and the and human
psychology is that people don't see you
through their eyes they see you through
yours right so here's the thing get
feedback learn how others see you and
one very powerful way that you can do
that is by asking them right ask people
you trust to give you an honest opinion
and of course let them know that they
can tell you anything you're not going
to take it personally right ask them how
do you see me I'm going to when I just
explain this to you what did you feel
what did you see about me how did you
hear me right how did you how did you
feel that I presented it was it clear
how did you relate to my tonality ask
them those questions and notice and
learn how they see you and if they give
you feedback that is something that is
out of the ordinary that you might not
have expected or maybe they gave you
feedback that you don't want others to
see you that way now you have an exact
road map of how to change it because how
would you because here's the thing you
don't know how others see you but how
others see you is going to be how
they're going to be able to intake your
your your articulated thoughts and it's
also going to be how they're able to
learn from it so technique number three
is to learn how others see you technique
number four is to lay them down in
writing first and this is really
important this technique is really
important especially if you take a long
time to chew on your words because
here's the thing you have had your
thoughts with you for a long time you've
been thinking about them for a long time
so they're clear in your head but
they're not going to do much use there
until you put them into words and get
them out there right CU most of us most
people know it very clearly in their
mind or in their head because they've
had those experiences which gave them
the thoughts and so we're very clear on
the emotional and the history of the
experiences but we're not used to we're
not used to putting them in words we're
not used to conveying them to another
person right and so sometimes this can
be an issue when now it's time for this
is the moment this is time now for you
to be able to articulate what you've
been thinking to articulate your
experiences or articulate the complexity
of that thought but we're used to
mulling it over in our minds and we're
not used to how do you put them in
sentences I don't even know how to talk
about it I mean how many of you have
said that like I know it very clearly
but I just don't know how to put it in
words right so in this case it helps to
write them down because you if there's
no word for it if you can't express a
word for it it cannot possibly exist in
another person's world because the
purpose of articulating your thoughts is
to let your thought exist in another
person's world that is the most
important thing if it doesn't exist in
the world then you haven't really
conveyed your thought to that person or
to those people right so write your
thoughts down and when you write them
down this will help you to build a
vocabulary or to build a vernacular
around your thoughts and this is
especially also very important if you
are an introvert cuz if you're an
introvert chances are you spend a lot of
time thinking about what you want to say
before you can say it and the process is
not as quick for you compared to someone
who is a visual learner or compared to
someone who is an extrovert or someone
who's been speaking from stage for a
long time so if that's you writing them
down lay laying them down and writing
will be especially key to help you build
that your own specialized vocabulary
around it and for you to help to help
you get the thought out there in
practice before you do it out in the
real world in front of somebody by the
way everything that I've covered so far
in terms of being able to deliver your
content in a way that is clear and
compelling by leveraging their learning
styles right being able to list them
down being able to put a structure
around it all of those things require
confidence and confidence doesn't it
doesn't come from being able to read
about confidence or learning about
confidence confidence comes in a
five-step process right confidence
doesn't come from practice because
practicing doesn't make perfect I mean
you must have heard the saying that
practice makes perfect but practice does
not make perfect because if you you
practicing and you're practicing the
wrong thing then it doesn't produce
what's perfect it produces the outcome
that you don't want and doing the same
practice expecting something different
well as you know from Einstein is the
definition of insanity so practice
doesn't make perfect practice makes
permanent so you have to be careful what
you are practicing and so if you are
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inside technique number five list them
out with a structure right because
another issue that you might have if you
are trying to articulate your thoughts
and they're very Dynamic they're very
complex they're very nuanced sometimes
as we start to talk about our thoughts
we can lose our train of thought right
so it's really important because
thoughts can be very Dynamic thoughts
can have a long history behind it
especially the more technical they are
so what you want to do is you want to
list down for
example you can list down your talking
points right you have an idea or a
thought you want to convey what are the
important steps behind it what's the
what's the steps behind your framework
of that thought or what are the the five
main points you want to talk about and
for each of those points of course
you're going to elaborate on that but
the key is to implement a pneumonic
device around it so for each of those
talking points you're going to elaborate
on choose a keyword that will cue your
mind to remember all of the things the
key thing and of course everything
around it that you're going to talk
about and all you have to do is remember
those keywords and it'll cure your mind
because you've already listed them down
you've already put laid them down in
writing and now you've already put a
structure around it so when you remember
that keyword that keyword will trigger
your brain to remember all the dynamic
the dynamic details around that thought
and all you have to do is remember those
keywords instead of remembering every
single thing Point by point and that
makes it easier because when you try to
remember all the minute details Point by
Point that's when you lose your train of
thought that's when it becomes more
difficult so instead of remembering all
those details of course you got to know
your know your stuff inside out but you
you've already done the work in writing
them down just remember that keyword and
it becomes a n pneumonic device to clue
in to exactly what you wanted to say so
that is technique number five is to list
them out with a structure oh and one
more thing I forgot to tell you is that
remember here's a pro tip when you're
listing them down with the structure use
alliteration alliteration really helps
and what alliteration means is that you
make sure each of your keywords or your
talking points begin with the same
letter if you look back on this video or
rewatch this exact video you see that I
have used alliteration every list every
point that I wanted to make every
technique began with the letter L check
it out and you'll see what I mean
technique number six is to learn the
words because as I mentioned earlier if
you don't make your thoughts exist in
someone else's world then you can't
convey your thoughts right now the
thoughts are in your mind but you want
to articulate them so that your thoughts
can exist in someone else's world and
here's the thing sometimes it's just a
matter of not having the word for it so
perhaps you haven't been able to put the
word for it because you don't have the
word for it so it's important that you
learn the words expand your vocabulary
so that when you articulate you can
articulate clearly you can articulate to
the point and you can articulate in a
very compelling way right however there
you have to have the wisdom to be able
to discern is it that you just don't
have the word for it in which case it is
about expanding your vocabulary or is it
that there is something inherent about
the speech itself right because
sometimes we have speech difficulties if
that's if that is the case and it's not
the vocabulary but it's something more
fundamental then you want to be able to
take care of the speech itself right
sometimes it's the mechanics of the
speech that I'm talking about the
ability to to enunciate the words the
ability to be able to flow the words
flowing and that's a mechanical part of
speech so have that ability discern
which one it is and then if it's if it's
simply about just the words putting the
word to it then learn the words step
number seven lose the stage fight
another reason why it is very difficult
or can be very difficult to articulate
your thoughts in front of someone else
is because there are some fears around
what others may think right and that
fear what will they think you know what
will they do what will they think of me
how will they perceive my intelligence
all of these fears prevent us from being
able to articulate better because we are
fearful of what others think so here's
the way the best way to overcome and to
learn leave that stage fight is to make
it about them there is a greater purpose
to articulate your thoughts there's a
greater purpose to put words to your
thoughts so that they can exist in
someone else's world and the bigger
purpose is so that you can help them so
make them the star of your communication
make it about them and not about what
you're going to get out of that
communication but how your articulation
and how it is so important and it is
your moral obligation to articulate
better so that you can help those you
are talking to and so those are the
seven techniques to powerful techniques
to articulate your thoughts better now
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