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

14 Jul 2017 · 2 min

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TJ Walker, who has coached over 10,000 speakers in 33 years, says most speakers waste time fixing tiny flaws instead of finding what they do well and amplifying it. He contrasts speakers who obsess over mistakes with those who review video to spot their strengths and build from there.

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33 years

Way in excess of 10,000 speakers

New York City

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What is the biggest flaw that holds back most public speakers? I think you'll be surprised by my answer to this question. I work with thousands of speakers in any given year and collectively over the last 33 years, way in excess of 10,000 speakers. Here's what I found is the biggest difference between those who really make tremendous progress versus those who stay at one level or just make a small amount of progress. The people who really make progress have simply learned the ability to look at a video of themselves and to see what's good, to see what they like so they can do more of it. The problem so many people have is they can look at a video of themselves and they may be doing 10, 20, 25 things well, but they fixate on one or two things they don't like, oh, I said two arms. Oh, my hair is falling out so no one will want to look at me. They fixate on just the one or two flaws. Now, great speakers will also pay attention to their flaws. They want to be aware of it, but they're much more focused on their strengths and they build their strengths over time. You have enough strengths as a speaker, it will drown out the weaknesses. I'm TJ Walker. I help people speak their best. If you'd like to improve your own speaking, please give me a call. Or check out our online courses below, or our public workshops every month in New York City, or our private trainings conducted all over the world.