Talk Like TED

Presenting has always been something I've struggled with. If I'm well prepared and know my stuff, then I'm not at all scared - but when I don't invest the time it shows. Talk like Ted dives deeper into the core of the presentation - focusing on adding pathos, logos and ethos to your talks. I like the idea of sharing memorable experiences and novel statistics as a way to stand out as well.

This book has its good points and confirms what we already know about public speaking. As a remInder to focus it is good. But it is written in a way that really puts me off the author as a selfy, pompous guy who needs to get into name dropping and bragging to prove his qualifications. After reading the book, I find myself worrying that now every public talk will sound like a TED talk, whereby we devalue the novelty add value of TED talks. The more TED talks we have, the less value single talks have.

Presenting has always been something I've struggled with. If I'm well prepared and know my stuff, then I'm not at all scared - but when I don't invest the time it shows. Talk like Ted dives deeper into the core of the presentation - focusing on adding pathos, logos and ethos to your talks. I like the idea of sharing memorable experiences and novel statistics as a way to stand out as well.

Although “Talk like TED” contains plenty of great advice for a first time public speaker, most of the tips presented are somewhat obvious and could be summarized in either a couple pages of text or a 20 minute video with clips from each TED talk. Nonetheless, the book does a good job discussing a myriad of public speaking techniques and serves as a nice refresher for those who give presentations or speeches quite often.