TJ Walker teaches a 550-lecture course on communication. He argues that showing up and practicing matters more than talent, and pushes students to post in the Q&A section using text, video, or audio. Active participation, he says, puts you in the top 1% of the class.
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A very famous movie star and director once said, 90% of success is just showing up. I want to apply that to communication. Now all of us communicate all the time with friends, family, but so many of us just stop communicating when we get outside of our comfort zone. We're afraid to raise our hand sometimes in a classroom, sometimes if it's a boardroom and there are intimidating people around. We're afraid to call that talk radio show. We're afraid to post our comments on a newspaper comment section. We're just afraid to communicate our ideas. So I want to put something here right in front of this course for you to chew on and really think about beyond all the skills of framing messages the right way, good eye contact, we'll get into all those style and mechanics. So much of being a good communicator is just how having the willingness to.
Speak out even if you're not quite comfortable.
So I want to give you a tip right now. You can automatically zoom up to the top 1% of communicators for this class just by doing one thing. I want you to communicate with me right now. Go to the Q and A section of this course and you'll see it right at the top in the middle of the page. Once you've clicked the dashboard and I.
Want you to communicate, you can do.
It in a text format and write and tell me what you want to get out of this course. You can post a video URL, put it on YouTube, post it here, telling us a little bit about who you are, what you want to get out of this course. You can make an audio recording and upload it to a site and put the audio there.
You get to choose, do what's comfortable for you.
But most of you, sad to say.
Are not going to communicate at all.
You're going to sit back passively, click, let's go to the next one, let's get through this course, let's see if we can get to the bottom and get our certificate. That's not really learning and it's not communication. So I asking you.
Politely, please communicate.
With me right now. Let me know specifically what you want to do to get the most out of this course. And even though this course is jam packed, there's 550 lectures in this course. I can still delete one to add something new if more of you want that. So communication has to be a two way street and too many instances in life, whether it's in school, whether it's in a big corporation, a big government.
Were used as you sort of sitting.
Back, passively receiving, and we buy into this idea that we don't have the right or the credibility or the standing to communicate back. Well, that's just not true. Especially in the modern world of technology, Internet, social media, it's never been easier to communicate in any format we want. So please, take a moment. Communicate something with me right here. Even if you want to say, tj, you're boring me. Get on with it. That's okay. Post your communication now.
