Okay, here's the part of the course where big decisions have to be made. You can sort of sit back and be a theater critic and treat this like you're watching Netflix, although Believe me, there are better things on Netflix, and said, Well, I didn't like the TJ didn't have more slides and images and music, or he can actually learn how to be a great presenter. It's not gonna happen unless you do the next thing I need you to take your one page of notes, and practice speaking on video and record it. I know you don't like doing this. I know you don't enjoy it. I know you don't feel comfortable.

And guess what? Nobody in your audience cares. I don't mean to sound mean, or cruel, but it's just a fact your audience wants your best if you're not willing to practice, then you don't really know if you're any good or not. That's what causes people to get nervous or uncomfortable or fearful or have sweat then Number one way to be confident when you speak is not to visualize your audience giving you a standing ovation or visualize the audience in their underwear. Bad idea for a lot of reasons. The number one way to get over fear, to be confident to actually be a great speaker, is to practice speaking on video until you love it.

So the answer is not just to practice on video, if you practice your speech on video and don't look at it, not gonna help at all. If you practice your speech once on video and make detailed notes of all the things you didn't like, guess what? That's not going to help. That's actually going to make you worse because you're going to be fixated on oh my gosh, I said, I'm twice that's the end of the world. Don't say, don't say imma you're going to trip yourself up. That's not going to help the solution to being fully confident be fully prepared for a presentation is to practice on video as many times as it takes until you can look at that video, whether it's on your cell phone, your iPad, your laptop, and you like it and you think you're coming across the best you can possibly come across in terms of style and substance.

My recommendation, don't wait anymore. Don't fast forward to the next video, you're gonna be tempted to do this right now look at it. And then focus on what you like not just your weaknesses, but also look at what you don't like when you re record it. Try to improve just one area at a time. So if you notice, for example, that your head is frozen and stiff the whole time, give your presentation again, this time specifically moving your head Now you can do this with another colleague holding the camera and don't worry about what type of camera doesn't matter what type of camera and a cell phone, any $10 webcam. You're not making a movie here.

This is just a training tool to help you figure out what are you putting out to the world? Because if you think your presentation your speeches really boring, guess what? It is? If you think you're coming across boring monotone, guess what you are? The answer is not to not look at it or to wing it the answers. Keep practicing until you love it.

The greatest speakers in the world are often the ones who spent the most time practicing on video. The people you see on TED Talks quite often have given their speech hundreds if not thousands of times before you actually get to see it. And they practiced on video. Someone like a former President Ronald Reagan of the United States would practices speeches, major speeches, like the State of the Union for an hour reading it out loud every night for a week, and then spend an entire day doing video take rehearsal. Why did he do that? He did it so that when he was reading his teleprompter, it didn't sound like he would reading the teleprompter.

Of all the tips I'm going to give you in this course, this is far and away, the most important, it's also the one people are least likely to follow. So I'm begging you practice your speech repeatedly on video and tell until it's perfect, but until you think it's the best you can do with your current skill level. It's gonna make all the difference in the world. Some of you are going to want to say well, TJ, you didn't give us enough practice practical tips in this course. So it's not long enough. You could spend 12 hours just on this if you wanted to.

You don't need more tips on the angle for holding your hand or what whether your hand should go in your pockets or not. If you haven't done this basic element of practicing your presentation on video, so before you advance before you rate the course or do anything else, please practice your presentation on video repeatedly until you think you're great.