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Create a Memorable Opening: Starting Your Speech Strong

17 Mar 2024 · 0 min

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A short instructional YouTube video transcript (TJ Walker) advising speakers to begin talks with an engaging opening rather than routine procedural phrases. The speaker recommends jumping straight into something interesting and notes that a joke is not required.

So many people, when they start to speak to someone, they feel like they have to go through these boring procedural. Good morning. Happy to be here today, as you know. And today I'm going to be talking about this and the exits over here. Boring. Just hop right to it. Say something interesting. A lot of people say, oh, I know what you're saying, TJ Tell a funny joke. Well, I'm not a good comedian. No, you don't have to start off a speech or a presentation or a talk with a joke.

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