We've all been there that trade association meeting that Chamber of Commerce meeting where the host is okay, before we start, Let's all stand up and just introduce ourselves for 30 seconds. It seems simple, it seems casual. No one's asking you to give a big keynote speech and still, our heart is racing. What do I say? What do I say, oh, we're not even listening to the other people. We're thinking about what to say.
Now, if you've ever experienced that, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Here's the reality when it comes to simple introduction speeches. There's three possible outcomes for every single introduction speech you give to yourself. Number one, make an awful impression. Your stammering your tongue tie, you can't say anything. You're Paolo.
I'm so nervous. You say something stupid in articulate. That happens every once in a while. I could think it maybe three times in my life. But that's pretty rare. Chances are that you're really not going to do that.
The second option is you say something. It's interesting. It's memorable. People want to come up to you afterwards introduce themselves to you give you their card. That's great. That's an ideal scenario.
That also doesn't happen very often, but that's what you're gonna learn how to do after we finish this course, the third option is you stand up. Hello, my name is blah, blah, blah, I am with blah, blah, blah company. If we do bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah. And then you sit down. And the result is, nobody remembers anything. They don't remember your name.
They don't remember the name of your law firm, your company or your organization. And they don't remember what you do. You just sounded like Charlie. Charlie Brown's teacher. Why want want want one? It's all generic stuff.
That's the real danger. For most of us. It's lost opportunity. It's not that we give a bad impression or a horrible pressure, people see our hands shaking. The real danger is we make no impression at all. We've taken time away from our family, friends, other activities, to go across town to some meeting, possibly two, possibly three hours out of your evening or day or lunchtime, to meet people to try to advance our organization, make new contacts, and we bought it.
That's just not a good idea. So I'm going to teach you exactly how to do this. And this is a free course folks, we only have to prepare a 32nd speech. But make no mistake about it. This is a speech that's why you're nervous about it are uncomfortable with it. public speaking, is the number one fear people have.
So standing up even sitting down in a chair in a circle. with eight other people introducing yourself is a type of public speaking. That's why people get nervous. That's why we need a plan. That's why we need to rehearse. And that's what we're going to do right now.