Using a teleprompter can be an effective way to communicate a very specific speech in a somewhat controlled way, so that you don't want to forget what to say. And you can focus on really delivering the message and connecting with your audience. Now, it's especially helpful if you're on national TV, and it's a live political convention the whole world is watching. If you're a world leader, President, a chairman of the Federal Reserve, a lot of people out there, if they're giving speeches, people are analyzing every single word. So a teleprompter can help you get it just right. Now, other people may want to use a teleprompter, because they're scared, or they're nervous, or they're just afraid they're going to forget stuff.

Or they're at a national convention and everyone else is using a teleprompter, so why not? There's all sorts of reasons for why people want to use a teleprompter. Some of them good, some of them not so good. We'll go into the reasons later. But for right now, let's hop right into how to be good at it. That's what the course is about.

I'm going to teach you how to read the teleprompter, in a way so that people won't notice your reading. They won't focus on the fact that you're reading a teleprompter. Don't sit, focus on your message, focus on your words, because that's the real goal of the teleprompter. It's simply a communication tool so that you can get your ideas from in your head out into the ears of the audience so they can focus on what you're saying. So let's hop right in.