Most people think effective speaking means memorizing every word, but that fear of forgetting creates anxiety and kills confidence. Real mastery is internalizing the core ideas so you can speak naturally instead of reciting a script.
We talked a lot about your journey, your story, but let's talk about what you are expert at. You are the expert speaker, you are the expert trainer. So I want to know, what do you think is the biggest misconception when it comes to, you know, public speaking and storytelling and all the related fields? One misconception that you've seen over the years, but it still continues for a few decades.
I think it's like, I thought when I first got into speaking that it was all about memorizing words. Yeah. And I was so nervous because I was like, if I miss a word, then I'm going to be done. There's, what do I do? And I realized that it's not about memorizing your speech. It's about internalizing it. It's about understanding it idea for idea rather than word for word.
