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CLAIRE SLATTERY: Hello, and welcome to Public Speaking Pro
Tips with Speechless, presented by Google Developers.
We help people turn the mundane into the memorable.
ARJITA SETHI: Challenges into insights.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: And presentations
into performances.
ARJITA SETHI: Today we'll deal with something
called the illusion of the first time.
It's what great speakers do to help
make the presentation feel fresh and exciting every time
you watch it.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: Even if it's the 50th time you're seeing it.
ARJITA SETHI: So let's jump in with tip number one.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: The speed through.
You're going to run through your talk as quickly as you can.
ARJITA SETHI: That's right.
Tempo, tempo, tempo.
This can help you hear your presentation anew and also find
any pattern that you may have fallen into,
whether positive or negative.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: Sometimes we get
caught in a rut around how to say each line,
and that can often lead to a flat or mechanical performance.
We start predicting the rhythm and anticipating our next line
before we've delivered the prior one.
ARJITA SETHI: The speed through forces
you to try your talk in a new tempo, which can
lead to unexpected discoveries.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: Maybe a new way to phrase a sentence,
or a desire to take a deep breath.
ARJITA SETHI: And it will help you to stay in the moment
when you switch back to the standard tempo.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: The speed through
forces you to try your talk in a new tempo, which can
lead to unexpected discoveries.
Maybe a new way to phrase an idea
or a desire to take deep breath.
And it will help you stay in the moment
when you switch back to the standard tempo.
ARJITA SETHI: Wow.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: No big deal.
ARJITA SETHI: Let's move on to tip number two.
Give your talk character.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: So let's do an exercise
we call three through the door.
You're going to take the first three
lines of your presentation.
We'll take the first three lines from the beginning
of this video.
And then you're going to walk through an imaginary revolving
door three times in character and perform those opening
lines as that character.
Arjita will demonstrate.
How about for this first one, do it as a five year.
ARJITA SETHI: OK.
(IN TODDLER VOICE) Hello and welcome to Public Speaking Pro
Tips with Speechless, presented by Google Developers.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: Now try it as a zombie.
ARJITA SETHI: OK.
(IN ZOMBIE VOICE) Hello, and welcome to Public Speaking Pro
Tips with Speechless, presented by Google Developers.
[ROARING NOISES]
CLAIRE SLATTERY: And this time as a princess.
ARJITA SETHI: OK.
(IN A GENTLE VOICE) Hello.
And welcome to Public Speaking Pro Tips with Speechless,
presented by Google Developers.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: Fantastic.
ARJITA SETHI: Thanks!
CLAIRE SLATTERY: The key is to quickly go through the door
and make a bold choice.
Now we're not saying that you should do your whole talk
as a zombie, but giving yourself a character to do your talk in
can eliminate moments that you may have skipped past before.
ARJITA SETHI: Not to mention it's a lot of fun.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: And if you're having fun,
then your audience is going to have fun too.
ARJITA SETHI: So we've given it tempo.
We've given it character.
What's left, Claire?
CLAIRE SLATTERY: Tip number three.
Give it emotion.
ARJITA SETHI: So let's try something
we call emotional roller coaster.
Think of the stage or room or set as three different zones.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: This will be zone one.
This is zone two.
And all the way over here is zone three.
ARJITA SETHI: Now we're going to assign
each zone a different emotion and have Claire jump back
and forth between all of them.
It's a lot of fun.
Zone one will be excitement, zone two will be anger,
and zone three will be fear.
And let's start with zone one.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: (EXCITEDLY) Hello,
and welcome to Public Speaking Pro Tips with Speechless,
presented by Google Developers!
We help people--
ARJITA SETHI: Zone three.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: (SHAKILY) Turn the mundane
into the memorable--
ARJITA SETHI: Zone two.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: (FORCEFULLY) Challenges into insights and--
ARJITA SETHI: Zone one.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: (EXCITEDLY) Presentations
into performances!
ARJITA SETHI: Excellent work, Claire.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: Thanks!
ARJITA SETHI: This exercise helps
to remind you that emotions are a powerful part
of every presentation.
And until you find the exact emotion,
sometimes it's helpful to just try random ones
and have fun with it.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: In all of these exercises,
you're creating healthy pathways in your brain
around giving presentations.
And that's what we call--
TOGETHER: Improv thinking.
ARJITA SETHI: A quick recap.
We have tip number one, give your talk tempo.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: Tip number two, give your talk character.
ARJITA SETHI: And finally, tip number three,
give your talk emotion.
CLAIRE SLATTERY: And remember, check the description
below for links from Google Developers, Women Techmakers,
and more tips from Speechless on how to think like an improviser
and develop your voice.
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