How To Give A Great Speech or Presentation (Even If You Screw Up)

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What if you are giving a talk or a presentation… and something goes wrong?

What do you do? PANIC?!

Hi, I’m Bryan Toder, The No Fear Guy… and if you are giving a talk or presentation and something goes wrong, you do this one thing:

You change the ending!

I was just coaching a speaker today who had this question and what I said to her was, “Your audience doesn’t know what you are going to say, right? So, if something goes wrong… like you forget a line or can’t remember a name…

…so what? Keep going. Why?

Because your audience doesn’t know what you were going to say, so they really don’t know if you messed up!”

Does that make sense?

What a lot of people do, instead, is they basically tell the audience they screwed it up!

“Oh, I forgot the guy’s name… what is it…?” etc.. instead of saying, “There’s a famous quote from an inventor that said…” or “An author once wrote…”

I can guarantee no one in the audience is thinking, “Hey! He forgot that guy’s name!’ or “Hey! He forgot a line there!”

So, if you mess up, just keep going! And. like the saying goes from a famous announcer, “Don’t let them see you sweat!”

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I’m Bryan Toder, the No Fear Guy!