I apologize. This next question is gonna sound obnoxious, arrogant, self serving. but hear me out and I think you'll see why I'm giving you this question. question I get a lot is, TJ How did you get to be so good at this? How did you become so fantastic on video and speeches and media and such a powerful communicator? Here's the thing, folks.
All I'm doing is talking something all of you do all day long. I have no innate talents or special skills here. This isn't like becoming a world class violinist or novelist. It doesn't require unique specialized, hard to come by skills. All it is is talking. And the reason some of you think I'm good at this is just because I don't do it.
Most people do when they get uncomfortable, they get uncomfortable and they stiffen up or they try to read a teleprompter or reading The script or speak quickly, they just stop doing the things they do in normal conversation. I'm not doing anything in this course or this video that you don't do every day, when you're talking to one friend or one colleague about something, you have an interest in it, I'm just talking. The only advantage I have is I've now done 10s of thousands of videos. So I'm just comfortable speaking to a camera with lights on me in a little room. As I am talking to one friend or client or colleague. I'm as comfortable in a large TV news studio, surrounded by journalists and video cameras and lights because I've done a couple thousand interviews in that environment.
It just takes practice. Now, when I was starting out in this way back in the 80s, it took a while to figure out ways of practicing getting more comfortable with the media. There was no YouTube. Yeah, there were video cameras. Cameras eventually VHS was clunky. But then where do you show it?
So it was a constant battle of lobbying to get on my college TV station, getting demo tapes and sending them to radio a tremendous amount of work. just spent creating demos and trying to get through gatekeepers. Well, now, nobody has that problem. You want to speak to the world. Just turn your camera on speak. post it on Facebook, post it on YouTube, post it on your website, maybe you don't have millions of people watching it, but you have some you have friends, family, you can start getting better.
This is the sort of thing where the more you do it, the more comfortable you get. And the better you get. People and you've heard me mentioned golf. I'm not a golfer I golf like once every four years, but people who golf once a year and had one lesson in their life aren't usually as good as people who golf once a week. Those people usually aren't as good as people who golf every day. You do something regularly you get comfortable with it.
The average 25 year old is a great driver compared to the average 14 year old. Why is that? Because someone 25, who doesn't live in a big city like I do, probably drives every day when you do something every day. You don't think about it, it just becomes second nature. So that's what's happening to me right now is it's just second nature to me. So I scratch my head at all.
I mean, just the other day I saw someone post on Udemy that they had spent nine months making their video course of a couple dozen, nine months. Just do it in one morning and be done with it. So no, I don't have any innate talents or special skills. There's nothing I'm doing here that you can't do.