Happiness Hypothesis

I was a backup speaker on October 20th at GGTM Club meeting. I received an e-mail requesting me to fill the spot of an absence speaker. My mind shouted to me "Kian, Never Turn Down Stage Time!!", a lesson I learned from Darren La Croix, the 2001 World Champion of Public Speaking.

And I came in the meeting and presented this:



Techniques applied are:
1) Bring audience into the scene (eg. if you were to sit beside my mum.....)
2) Let me message told by 3rd party or a "Guru" (eg. my mum gave me the message and I'm not the one giving the message, so audience would trust my mum's message)
3) Structure are similar to Craig Valentine speech for practice purpose only
4) Suspense build in at opening (eg. mentioning about 9:40 am on a Thursday morning, April 2008.... )
5) Ask metaphorical question (eg. If I were to ask you.... answer A and answer B, then...)

Improvement:
1)Walk in and out of the stage with confidence and do not hunge
2) Use the word "growth" or "grow" replacing "progress" (a word change might means a lot to different culture)
3) Control the energy level and tame the butterflies
4) To inject charisma, reduce the "smiley" face
5) Movement on stage and playing roles could be further imrpove (eg. when playing Alex.. .stay on right and when playing myself, stay on the left side of the room)
6) Pause to allow audience to either response or to allow audience to think

Cheers,
Kian