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Top Motivational Speakers
If you notice top motivational speakers like Les Brown and Tony Robbins, you will see that when they add in humour into their motivational speeches, they always get a huge response from the audience. It’s almost like they are quite natural at being entertaining as well as educational.
But the truth is that top motivational speakers are simply not afraid to make mistakes along the way when they were developing their presentations. They have come to a point where they know what will work for their audience and what won’t.
I know this from personal experience as well as I was developing my own motivational speeches (as well as diversity presentations). In the formative stages, I tried different dialogue and stories. Some as I predicted, worked really well with the audience. However, some to my surprise, also tanked. They did not get the response I had hoped for and after a few more attempts with different audiences to confirm, I deleted those parts that were not very effective from my talks.
Today, my motivational speeches are pretty effective but this is only because I’ve gone through a period of trial and error with respect to trying new parts out in my talks. There’s no way I would have known whether an element really works or not with audiences unless I tried them out in live situations. I had to be prepared for any lemons.
Don’t Be Afraid To Make Mistakes
I shot an episode of Motivational WebTV about making mistakes and it centered around my own errors during my martial arts competition career. If you missed this video, see it at Making Mistakes For Success. In that video, I claimed that it’s when I made mistakes, I learned the most. This in turn made me a better martial arts competitor because the mistakes and competition losses helped me define what I really needed to focus on in order to become better.
This of course works for other areas of life as well and my motivational speeches were a clear example of this. The same thing can be said with making investments, how you conduct yourself in relationships and in social situations as well as activities like cooking or writing.
You become better in those things after you’ve made mistakes and you will comparably improve faster than somebody who doesn’t put much action in because of the fear of making mistakes.
So if you want to get better at something, just do it and don’t be afraid if you make mistakes. Learning from any mistakes is how you get better.
