Remember the Speech

00:01 So, how do you remember what to say when you're giving a speech? Because you don't want to look like you're reading and staring at a PowerPoint.

00:09 What do you do? Well, here's my solution for you don't remember anything.

00:13 Have a cheat sheet.

00:15 Now, this is ethical cheating, my friends.

00:18 But have a cheat sheet just for you.

00:20 The beauty of this sheet is a single sheet of paper, large font.

00:24 This is what I use when I'm giving an hour-long speech on how to speak to the media, and I have two or three of these around the room.

00:31 I never have to pick them up.

00:33 I never touch them because it's large font.

00:35 I don't have to bend over to look at it or put on my glasses.

00:39 I can just be walking by and glance at it that way.

00:42 I don't have to remember anything other than the general stuff I say when I see that particular bullet point and I can talk about it in a non word for word memorized way, I can just have a conversation about that point.

00:57 So don't put pressure on yourself to remember anything for a speech.

01:03 Instead, just use notes, but keep it to a single sheet.

01:07 If it takes more than a single sheet of paper for you to put your notes, that by definition proves you have not done a good enough job of narrowing down the number of points you're trying to convey in this speech.