Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

What is the best advice you have ever been given about speaking on stage?🗣️

31 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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In this YouTube interview, Nick Hutchison asks a fellow speaker for practical tips ahead of an upcoming stage appearance. The speaker emphasizes the importance of delving deeply into one’s own content, rejecting manufactured or overly academic material. He stresses that authentic, personally resonant principles—not theoretical concepts—are what truly transform a speaker’s performance and impact, noting that these approaches have changed his own life and the lives of others.

I have an event coming up soon, as you know, and I'm going to be up on stage a little bit. So I'd love any tips that you might have.
I go deep inside on the content because the content for me, it's not manufactured, not playing a part. This is not academic or theoretical or even hypothetical. These are the principles that have changed my life and they've changed the lives of other people.
That's not me just saying it. I, they tell me so.
So I feel like when you're really connected to the message and you're being true to yourself, true to what you're communicating, the reason why you're doing it, it becomes less about public speaking and more about, man, I have something I need to tell you guys. I have something you should probably know. I think we'll both benefit if you know what I'm about to share. So I think being connected to the message and authentic about the message is what really— it kind of calms my nerves, uh, in some of those more tense scenarios.