Short video excerpt where TJ Walker contrasts characteristics of great versus bad public speakers. He claims many great speakers rely on retelling real conversations (storytelling) and often prepare less, while bad speakers over-prepare with extensive rewriting and elaborate slide decks.
Here's the shocking thing. So many great speakers are actually lazy. That's right, you heard me. Lazy. And so many bad speakers are hard working. What do I mean by that? The bad speakers write, write, rewrite, have all these elaborate PowerPoints, slide after slide after slide. The good speaker simply borrows interesting conversations they've had with one person at a time and retells those stories.
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