7 Essential Tips to Prepare for Your TED Talk

This is a follow up to my first guide on How to Get a TED Talk (and what to do when you get there). As I am getting ready to present my fifth TEDx talk, I wanted to share some of the best practices I’ve learned along the way on preparing for a TED talk. Of course, these are just general ideas that work for public speaking as well.

1. Don’t practice. Rehearse instead.

In my book, Music Business Hacks, I argue that bands shouldn’t “practice,” they should “rehearse.” Speakers should do the same....