So why would anyone even want to be able to speak without notes? Why do you want to be able to speak without notes? I think it's because when we think that the best speakers we've ever seen in our lives, they seem to be just sharing with us. They're just talking to us. They're having a conversation with us. They aren't reading notes like this as if they were reading the phone book.

They're not ignoring us. They don't seem like robots just going through the motion. That's the problem with reading a script could be a well written speech. But if your head is down, and you're speaking in the same tone, the same volume, the same speech, or even if you're using a teleprompter, and everything is just right, there's something mechanical about it. And public speaking is one of these things where it's an intimate no mean your clothes come off, but it's an intimate act. It's a personal act.

You're there in the room with someone. You can see the speaker, the speaker can see you and that's why thanks Like, staring at notes or staring at a strip or getting behind the lectern and looking at the notes the whole time. It just destroys the intimacy of it. When you see a speaker, who seems to be looking right at you, talking to you, seeing if you get it, asking you a question, it dramatically changes the whole relationship between the audience member and the speaker. It's much more powerful. And that's why I believe it's a great idea for you to aspire to be speaking without notes, or at least to be seen as speaking without notes.

But let's step back for a minute. Why do people want to use notes or a script when they're giving a speech because I'm scared, I'm nervous. I'll forget what to say. I don't have my crutch here. I don't have my notes to read the whole time. I'll not know what to say or I better have my PowerPoint slide.

That way. I can relax and on to worry about forgetting anything or leaving anything out, I can just go through all the bullet points. That's the logic people use. And it's fundamentally flawed logic, it's virtually impossible to develop a reputation of being a great speaker, a commanding speaker. If you're always reading notes, yes, there are exceptions. And there are certain presidents who have refined the act of reading a teleprompter so well, they still really connect with people.

But for most people in business, in government in academia, we don't have a teleprompter. at our disposal all the time. It's either we speak to people directly, or we have a combination of script and notes in our head is very that's the choice. Well, I'm here to tell you there is something in between. And it's a way of speaking to an audience where you appear not to be using notes, but it's not going to involve All teleprompter, it's not going to involve an app on your cell phone with a little teleprompter app like that, because that would be so annoying to people. And that's the only thing they would talk about.

Now, there are certainly tactics you can use to trigger your memory. Okay, here's the first concept I have. And it's like a Christmas tree ornament. I'm walking into my house and here's the Christmas tree. There's all sorts of word associations to help you memorize it. If you could do that, great.

You don't need to be in this course. I've always found those memory techniques to be really difficult, extraordinarily difficult. disciplined is what you that's the approach you need. If you're gonna do the whole memorization thing. I think that's hard. I'm going to give you an easy, easy solution to how to appear to be speaking without nose.

But before we do that, I want you to think of a topic that you're going to give a speech on, think of the topic and start brainstorming on ideas you want to convey on this topic and then we're going to hop right in and I'll share with you the magic