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

24 Apr 2018 · 1 min

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A live-streamed personal-development talk by TJ Walker about the habit of using filler words (notably 'you know') during speeches, presentations, interviews, or voicemails. In this chunk Walker explains that people use fillers when they feel self-conscious or want to avoid awkward silence, and he emphasizes that speakers can simply pause; he also promises practical techniques later in the course to address the habit.

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So why do people say, you know, a lot of times, in my experience, people only do it when they're feeling uncomfortable, when they're giving a speech, a presentation, doing a media interview, leaving a voicemail, something that takes them out of their normal conversational mode. And what's happening is they're self conscious and they're thinking, uh oh, everybody's looking at me. How do I fill up this empty space? I don't want it to be an awkward silence. That's when people do it. It's important to realize you don't have to fill up the sound. You can simply pause. This course is going to give you even more techniques of how to do it. Sounds easy when I say it, but I want to give you a lot more practical tips to solve this problem.