it's 1903 and this extraordinary guy
named Teddy Roosevelt his standing on
the edge of the Grand Canyon and at that
time people wanted to create hotels and
spas and turn the Grand Canyon in 1903
into a profit-making Disneyland of the
environment and he stood and said no and
he created a tipping point for the
environmental movement and for the world
he said leave it as it is the ages have
been at work on it and man can only Mar
it the world would have been a different
place today without those words those
tipping point words from President
Theodore Roosevelt fast forward his
fifth cousin President Franklin
Roosevelt 30 years later 1933 in the
midst of a huge crisis the Great
Depression of America said a few words
to create a tipping point towards
healing for the United States first of
all let me assert my firm belief that
the only thing we have to fear is fear
itself
nameless unreasoning unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to
convert retreat into advance the world
would have been a different place
without those words at that time from
that man so in my 30 years of studying
public speaking and great speeches I
found that there are seven secrets that
great speakers do that other people
don't and it's my belief that every
single human being can be a great
speaker and that their words can create
a tipping point and that their words and
their essence can change the world the
first secret is about words and
understanding that words can be the best
the most in
amazing in the world but they only
actually touch people and communicate 7%
of the impact that one human being has
on another voice tone the variation in
your voice the enthusiasm the love the
passion that comes through your voice 38
percent your body language are you
looking into someone's eyes are you
looking over their head and not
connected so words voice tone and body
language those are the three vehicles
the three pathways that great
communication happens in secret number
four what most people do is they throw
so much data out trying to prove that
they're smart trying to get all the
content out words are the seven percent
what is important is what is that one
thing that you want to leave people with
what is that headline that's what makes
a great speech and that's what we're
talking about today secret number five
is fascinating if you are afraid are any
of you afraid of public speaking 41% of
the world across cultures is terrified
almost to the point and often to the
point of actually turning down speaking
appointments whether they're political
leaders or business leaders or
charitable leaders they turn down
opportunities to shake the world because
they're scared there are a lot of
reasons why people are scared but in my
experience the number one reason is that
we don't know what public speaking
really is we don't know the true
definition the true definition of public
speaking is that public speaking is
nothing more than having a conversation
from your heart about something that you
are authentically passionate about right
if you think it's a performance you're
going to be zero percent you and 100
percent actor and we don't get to see
and experience and feel who you are so I
want you to write the word speech down
on a piece of paper and I want you to
put a circle around it and I want you to
put a line through it I don't want you
ever ever to give another speech that's
not what great speakers do they don't
give a speech they don't give a
performance
they don't make a presentation to the
audience they have what they have a
conversation with it is a circle it
things us all together we are a web
connected to every other person that's
what great speakers do when I first met
Princess Diana she looks me in the eyes
and says you know I'm so scared of
public speaking and I wish that I could
do what Charles does now this was when
they were actually breaking up so it was
even more difficult for her to admit
that and I said what does he do he said
well he just stands up there and he
tells this funny joke and then he moves
on and he's completely unfazed by it and
I told her that Prince Charles doesn't
have what she has and what she had was
what touched and moved the world people
connected with her on a human level and
that all you need to do your royal
highness
is just share from your heart that huge
heart that you have and your gut and
people will love you even through the
speech that scares you they will feel
you they will know you they will connect
with you and that it is far more
effective than giving a speech than
telling a funny joke but not sharing
your heart so secret number six and
you'll notice this in some of the
speakers is that we actually have five
parts of our brain those five different
senses seeing hearing smelling tasting
touching and feeling translate into four
different actual communication languages
speak one of them you're not going to be
very good speak two of them you'll be
average no matter who you are speak all
four no matter who you are you're going
to rock the world because you're going
to be giving every person in the
audience something that they can connect
to and visual is the energy of energy
it's the language of energy it's Robin
Williams I've used him as an example and
I'm going to continue to use him as an
example how amazing was Robin Williams
auditory is the ability to translate
details and what you see what you think
what you feel into a story into words
Ronald Reagan was a great example of
that auditory digital that's the Albert
Einstein the Bill Gates the the
analytical statistically driven kind of
information you don't have that you
don't have a foundation or credibility
people are going to go wow that person
is very charming but there's no there
there and kinesthetic is the James Earl
Jones the Morgan Freeman the Barry White
Oh baby it's the poet Ali it's that
connecting thing that is inside of each
and every one of us that is the most
important thing in being a speaker and
being a communicator and then seven you
can just have this and nothing else and
you will still rock the world as so many
people do and that is your authentic
passion what is it that it's so effing
cool that you just have to share it or
so effing compelling and I use that
middle word you can use whatever version
you want because it's a visceral thing
it's not intellectual so let's go back
on our chronological tour of great
speeches that have created tipping
points in the world now this person Lou
Gehrig didn't create a tipping point in
terms of the global geopolitics of the
world but he created a tipping point in
terms of understanding the human spirit
and his own here it was as you all know
he was diagnosed with ALS he tried to
play couldn't play they then he had to
end his career and Yankee Stadium held a
day for him Lou Gehrig day was in 1939
he gets out there and he like so many of
you was petrified of public speaking and
he's there he's there and then just when
it's time for him to go on he starts
backing away and said I can't do this I
can't do this his manager comes up to
him puts his arm around him said Lou
they're all here for you my friend
they're all here for you and walks him
up and he goes and this is what he says
today I consider myself the luckiest man
on the face of the earth everyone who
studies public speaking puts that speech
in their lists it's just unbelievable
the sense of gratitude that this man had
in the middle of his own personal crisis
but let's go to the next year a huge
tipping point about to happen for Great
Britain and their battle against Nazi
Germany three days before the speech
King George goes to Winston Churchill
and says please
I want you to be the Prime Minister
we've got to do something we've got to
face this threat and this is Winston
Churchill it's just the audit audio they
didn't have video in the House of
Commons in 1940 in stage of the house
and I said to those who joined the
government
I have nothing to offer but blood toil
tears and quick the world would have
been a different place without Winston
Churchill and those words in that level
of conviction leadership and resolve
let's move forward now I have three from
John F Kennedy and you'll see why this
one you all know about he was following
an old General Dwight D Eisenhower he's
in his 40s a whole new era for America
and the world you'll be familiar with
the first part of this but probably not
the second hey fellow Americans ask not
what your country can do for you ask
what you can do for your country
my fellow citizens of the world ask not
what America will do for you but what
together we can do for the freedom of
man the world became a different place
because of that speech and that new
president and he proved it several times
a couple years later at Rice University
he's talking about his authentic passion
to put a man on the moon listen to the
level of detail here and notice that
this is such a visionary leader that he
even commits himself in the United
States of America when we don't even at
that point know how to do it we shall
send to the moon 240,000 miles away from
the control station in Houston a giant
rocket more than 300 feet tall
the length of this football field made
of new metal alloys some of which have
not yet been invented capable of
standing hell neighs dresses several
times more than have ever been
experienced fitted together with a
precision better than the finest watch
carrying all the equipment needed for
propulsion guidance control
communications food and survival on an
untried mission to an unknown celestial
body and then return it safely to earth
re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of
over 25,000 miles per hour causing heat
about half that on the temperature of
the Sun almost as hot as it is here
today and do all this and do all this
and do it right and do it first before
this dictators out
must evolve how amazing was that right
sadly he didn't get to live to see that
but he made it happen through his vision
his leadership and creating that tipping
point with that speech and then as you
know the famous speech he's in Berlin
the West Berliners are suffering
mightily he goes in and says they're not
alone all three men wherever they may
live a citizens of Berlin and therefore
as a free man I take pride in the words
ich bin ein bier Lena
okay so next year after that or that
actually later that year dr. Martin
Luther King I think you've all been
aware of this no one would doubt that
this this speech half of which he
ad-libbed ad-libbed this speech shook
the world and created I have a dream my
four little children will one day live
in a nation where they will not be
judged by the color of our skin but by
the content of their character I have a
dream today if only it were true and
we're making progress because of that
speech Barbara Jordan someone you may
not know a Texas congresswoman was the
last person to speak at the Watergate
committee talking about whether we were
in fact going to impeach Richard Nixon
she was a freshman congresswoman it was
around midnight and yet her words with
that incredible voice tone of hers shook
the world and catalyzed the movement
against Richard Nixon today I am an
inquisitive and hyperbole would not be
fictional and would not overstate the
solidness that I feel right now my faith
in the Constitution is whole it is
complete it is total and I am NOT going
to sit here and be an idle spectator to
the diminution the subversion the
destruction of the Constitution um
Barack Obama tonight is a particular
honor for me because let's face it my
presence on this stage is pretty
unlikely and that's it right there that
speech was a tipping point it changed
America whether you like him or not that
one speech in 2004 changed America we
don't have audio of this but one of my
favorite speeches ever is a speech that
was given by Albert Einstein he says the
most beautiful and deepest experience a
man can have is the sense of the
mysterious to sense that behind anything
that can be experienced there is a
something that our mind cannot
grasp and whose beauty and simplicity
are at but a feeble reflection to me it
suffice us to wonder at these secrets
and to attempt humbly to grasp with my
mind a mere image of the lofty structure
of all that there is and he did that and
created a shift where we understood how
matter and energy are the same and
created a new paradigm and some people
even think that it mirrors this ancient
symbol which was the symbol and is the
symbol for God called ohm and if you
look at it if you look there's a
backwards e there's an equal sign
there's an M which is on its side
there's a C and there is a supernumerary
that also looks like the square e equals
mc-squared
thousands of years ago reflected in
Albert Einstein's discovery in 1906 I
want to play this this is the most
powerful in my opinion the most powerful
couple minutes of oratory recorded
oratory recorded tipping point speech
making in the history of the world feel
it and notice that this is the last
speech he gave before he died he died
and it's obvious it was obvious he knew
it he died the next day like anybody I
would like to live a long life longevity
has its place but I'm not concerned
about that now I just want to do God's
will
and he's allowed me to go up to the
mountain I've looked over and I've seen
the promised land I may not get that
with you but I want you to know the
night that we as a people will get to
the promised land about anything I'm not
in a man I've seen so are you afraid of
public speaking if so you're along with
half of the people on the planet the way
over that is to see it as a conversation
from your heart and to ask yourself this
one question what is my Dharma what is
it that I am passionate about that I
want to share with the world something
that my unique DNA which is contained in
every one of 50 trillion cells carried
in 50 thousand atomic bombs worth of
energy that's what Einstein said will
allow me to be out in the world make a
difference and give speeches share my
passion and make the world a better
place every single person I've worked
with has the ability in their own way to
break through to make the world a better
place to bring that passion out and to
create a tipping point that will change
every single thing on the planet
and indeed make the world a better place
and I encourage you to please step
through the fear share your passion
share who you are authentically and make
that difference thank you all so much