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

14 Mar 2019 · 2 min

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TJ Walker names Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama as the best modern English-speaking orators, then advises you to pick speakers you admire and study them obsessively. Watch their videos, learn their style, steal what works for your own speaking.

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Who is the best orator? You know, that is a question I get from time to time. It's a tough question because in some ways it's like saying, who's the best singer in the world? Well, I might like Pavarotti, I might like Robert Plant. I might like both. It's hard to think of best. I like to think of in terms of who's great and consistently interesting and compelling, who stands out from 95% of the world in the English speaking world. And I do work all over the world, but I am in the United States, so I'm most familiar with that. The last 30 years, I would rate Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton as two of the best speakers. Also Barack Obama. Those three are sort of the best speakers in the English speaking world. Certainly Margaret Thatcher has her fans. Tony Blair over on the continent. There are great speakers in every culture. Many of them I'm not aware of because I might not speak the language. I do think it's important to build a relationship, a fan relationship. Not a stalking relationship, but a fan relationship with speakers you like so you can watch them, study them, learn from them, admire them. Go watch their videos again on YouTube. If someone resonates with you, if you like their style and you like their message, then it's a great speaker for you. I might not like them, you might love them. That's okay. Great writers all have their own favorite writers. They like to read. Great writers read lots and lots of writers. If you want to be a great speaker, you need to watch and study other people you respect as great speakers.