TJ WALKER - THE HABIT INFLUENCER - Personal Development | LIVE STREAM

26 Jul 2016 · 2 min

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A short live-stream monologue by TJ Walker focusing on public speaking and leadership image. Walker argues that speakers must manage appearance and staged entrances to establish authority, illustrating the point with George Washington's practice of dismounting a stagecoach and entering towns on horseback to project leadership.

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Historians will agree I was never a great public speaker. I wasn't a natural. I was never completely comfortable in the role as public speaker. But I certainly realized that every time I stood up to speak, every time I made an entrance, people were judging me, making decisions. And they wanted a leader. And I wanted to not just sound the part, but. But looked the part. So every time I entered a town, I would get out of my stagecoach, I would get on top of a horse, I would make sure I had my long white hose pulled all the way up to my knees so I could make a grand entrance to a town. People could see me. And before I spoke, they'd already decided, there's a leader. There is somebody I need to listen to. My name is George Washington. That's right, folks. Many believe that the founding fathers of the United States were somehow apolitical, almost just worried about doing the right thing. Principles. Yeah. But they also worried about their public relations. They did worry about image. And George Washington didn't want to be seen coming into town in a big, fancy stagecoach. So a couple miles outside of town, he would get out of the stagecoach, get on a horse, and make a much more triumphant entrance to a town. So anytime you're speaking, anytime you're presenting yourself to the public, you do have to think about how. How do you look? How are you coming across? Are you dressed the way people perceive a leader to be dressed? Are you making an entrance the way a leader should be making an entrance? The founding fathers thought about this. You should, too.