TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking

by Chris J. Anderson

Your only real job in giving a talk is to have something valuable to say, and to say it authentically in your own unique way.

I am fascinated w/ story telling, becoming an orator.

The only thing that truly matters in public speaking is not confidence, stage presence, or smooth talking. It’s having something worth saying.

Worth saying, who deems what is worthy of being said? I would think that it would require some form of collaboration between individual speaking in those who are listening.