Also remember that no one knows your material except *you*
They won’t know if you make a mistake unless you *tell them* you made a mistake. nostr:note1tjfsqjekn56v0nt3zvtfl08f5x4qfma4g9ch33vmu5wn5pwvcmjqaypwu8
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Unless you’re on stage with your spouse.
Then they know 😂
Some of my favorite conversations backstage:
“Did you mess up th—“
“YEUP!”
absolutely on point here. i've told katie this in the past. she's traveled around the country doing motivational speaking engagements and she often would say sorry if she made a mistake. i told her that she should never say sorry, just continue or correct yourself if need be, and own it. in the end they're all their to watch and listen to you. i'm a good hubager 😆
Yup nostr:note1gamhsj3cvtjwwhl6tfxwsd5tnrd95ydaqqwk0ygut8vylaqmqwxsj7rm37
The worst thing you can do as a speaker:
• Apologize
Just do whatever the fuck you want on stage, and don’t apologize about it, it will be proportionally more entertaining the more you just be yourself. 😆
This^
It’s ok to be funny/human on stage
It’s a matter of time before holograms and droids replace us with perfected scripts 😂
A stage presence that really stood out to me while I was going down this rabbit hole was Ellen at the Oscars. All politics and stupid self-serving actors aside, she is brilliant at entertaining people and completely internalized this principle.
She literally spent an entire segment ordering pizza on stage, and then another one getting it from the delivery person and handing it out to people in the audience and just picking on them about it. Then another one just getting a bunch of actors together to take a selfie.
It was genuinely entertaining, and there was absolutely nothing to it. There's something novel in taking a very controlled relationship like you being on stage in front of tons of people all watching you, and then treating it as if its just sort of happenstance that you're up there. Ordering a pizza isn't funny, but being on stage and giving a speech, and then stopping to order a pizza, is peak entertainment. 🤣
There are a lot of other examples, but it just demonstrates that the environment can be heavily to your advantage, if you are willing to drop expectations, not hold yourself to some impossible standard or try to be someone else, and just have fun... most people will love it.
The Joe Biden. If things start going downhill while public speaking, just leave your audience confused af.
All the Brits and Canadians suck at this one… or use it to dramatic effect
Spot on. Speaking in front of folks is probably the best therapy available for shy people and those with low self esteem. It did amazing things and helped me understand that we are all the world’s leading authorities on ourselves. To paraphrase Dr. Seuss- “this is truer than true, no one’s you-er than you.”