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

I delivered the most famous, well received speech of the 20th century. But guess what? The most famous line in it wasn't written in the speech I improvised. When I was at the march in 1963 in Washington on the Mall. My original speech didn't say I have a dream. It's something I added in the moment. But here's the thing. It wasn't just something that popped into my head. I had used that phrase many, many times in other speeches on the same topic. So yeah, I improvised. But it's improvisation the way a jazz musician does. Because the jazz musician has played similar songs, similar tracks, similar beats thousands of times with the same group. And you're improvising within the context of stuff you already know you're familiar with. It's not just something completely out of the blue. I used my judgment because I was comfortable in that situation. I was confident because I knew I had a great speech regardless. And that allowed me the ability to change on the spot based on responses I was getting from the audience, my reactions from the audience, and you know what? It all worked out. My name is Martin Luther King Jr. Many people just assume the I have a Dream speech had it in the speech and it was titled that. No, it didn't have that as a title. And it wasn't in the speech. It was improvised. But again, within a context, it wasn't just a phrase that popped into his head that second. He'd used it many, many times before in different speeches and just decided to work it in at the last minute. And it worked. So this is not winging it, folks. A lot of people say, well, I don't want to practice my speech too much. I don't want to become stale. I'll just wing it. No, great speakers don't wing it. They may make changes. They might react to the mood of the audience or something. Somebody says in the audience. But they're building on past successes. That's what Martin Luther King Jr. Did. That's what you can do too.