Okay, here's the moment you've been dreading. And I've been dreading This is the moment where I asked you to take the best presentation you've recorded so far, the one that you like you think is great. Even your colleagues and friends think it's pretty good. And they remember your messages. I want you to upload that video now to either YouTube or Facebook or some file sharing service and put the URL right here in the q&a section of this course. I know you don't want to do that.
Most people don't want to do it. Most people don't do it. Why do I say I regret this? Because frankly, it shows I'm not 100% persuasive when I speak because I'm trying to persuade you to do this. So I can help you so I can give you specific feedback. And also so your colleagues in this course can give you feedback.
I know some of you have written to me privately saying well, TJ Can I just send it to you privately. This is public speaking folks, this is presentation skills to the public. You've got to get used to showing it to other people. That's part of what scares us is other people are going to see it and make judgments. I will say I can't guarantee everything for the teacher. But here's one thing I do want to share with you, for those of you concerned about other people seeing it and making fun of it.
Nobody cares about you. They're worried about their own presentations. I've been on this platform for more than four years. I've had 80,000 students go through my courses. I've had an awful lot of people post videos of themselves speaking and I can tell you there is never once been a situation where another student made fun of or mocked or ridiculed any students presentation. This is so far at least a very safe, friendly environment, I'm going to be giving you constructive feedback where I think you have problems need to fix it, I will be candid and tell you exactly what I want you to do or think you should try.
But this isn't a nasty place. Now, if you are uploading it to YouTube, I would suggest you put the setting for not public or unlisted. That way we can see it but it's not out there for everyone on the internet to see. Obviously, don't put anything that's confidential to your business, or top secret. But anything else, especially for these practice videos, please put it up there. And I can just tell you, I'm being candid here.
Most students don't do this. But this is where you got to make a real decision. Are you in this course? Are you all in this course? Are you just kind of sitting back for the entertainment I have to tell you if you're here for entertainment I'm not that entertaining, you should go watch Jerry Seinfeld, you should go to Netflix. This isn't the place for entertainment.
But if you really want to get better at your presentation skills, I need to see something you can't go to a writing class. be given a writing assignment, never turned into a writing assignment. Never get feedback from the writing teacher and get to be a better writer. It's kind of the same thing with a presentation skills class. So please don't just fast forward to the next video. Put your video up somewhere, put the link the URL in the q&a section right here.