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

7 Aug 2018 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a TJ Walker live stream (The Habit Influencer) in which Walker questions the idea of a single "perfect" speech length. He cites a 1974 U.S. Defense Department study that suggested ~19 minutes and notes TED Talks' ~17-minute limit, but argues there is no magic number — content must be engaging and each second should count.

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About 17 minutes

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How long should a speech be? What's the perfect length of time for a speech? There was a study done by the United States Defense Department in 1974 that said the perfect length of a speech? About 19 minutes. Ted talks. They limit theirs to about 17 minutes. I don't think there is any magic number. Far better to be really interesting than and an hour. Then be incredibly boring and be over in two minutes. You need to focus on the ideas you're trying to get your audience to understand and present those ideas in an interesting, memorable way. Don't worry about some artificial time constraint of exactly 2 minutes or 3 minutes or 17 minutes. Focus on making every second count. Do that. Time will take care of itself.