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21 " Inspiration is like love. "
― Chris J. Anderson , TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
22 " What are humans for? Humans are for being more human than we’ve ever been. More human in how we work. More human in what we learn. And more human in how we share that knowledge with each other. Our giant opportunity for tomorrow is to rise. To rise above our long history of using specialist knowledge to do repetitive tasks. Whether it’s the backbreaking work of harvesting rice year after year or the mind-numbing work of assembling a product on a manufacturing line, most humans, for most of history, have made a living doing the same thing over and over again. Our future won’t be like that. Anything that can be automated or calculated ultimately will be. Now, we can be fearful of that, or we can embrace it and take the chance to discover a richer path to life fulfillment. "
23 " Your goal is not to be Winston Churchill or Nelson Mandela. It’s to be you. If you’re a scientist, be a scientist; don’t try to be an activist. If you’re an artist, be an artist; don’t try to be an academic. If you’re just an ordinary person, don’t try to fake some big intellectual style; just be you. You don’t have to raise a crowd to its feet with a thunderous oration. Conversational sharing can work just as well. In fact, for most audiences, it’s a lot better. If you know how to talk to a group of friends over dinner, then you know enough to speak publicly. "
24 " How others think of us matters hugely. We are profoundly social animals. "
25 " In 2015, we tried an experiment at TED headquarters. We granted everyone on the team an extra day off every second week to devote to studying something. We called it Learning Wednesdays. The idea was that, because the organization is committed to lifelong learning, we should practice what we preach and encourage everyone on the team to spend time learning about something they’re passionate about. But how did we prevent that just becoming a lazy day of sitting in front of the TV? There was a sting in the tail: Everyone had to commit, at some point during the year, to giving a TED Talk to the rest of the organization about what they’ve learned. "
26 " Your number-one mission as a speaker is to take something that matters deeply to you and to rebuild it inside the minds of your listeners. We’ll call that something an idea. A mental construct that they can hold on to, walk away with, value, and in some sense be changed by. "
27 " I can’t end this chapter without lamenting the biggest killer of connection: tribal thinking. Whether in politics, religion, or race, people who are part of a community that has rejected wholesale the ideas you want to articulate, are, to say the least, a challenging audience "
28 " So, if you hear someone tell you that body language matters more than verbal language in public speaking, please know that they are misinterpreting the science. (Or for fun, you could just ask them to repeat their point purely with gestures!) "
29 " The only thing that truly matters in public speaking is not confidence, stage presence, or smooth talking. It’s having something worth saying. "
30 " V dnešní propojené době bychom toto vznešené umění měli vzkřísit a udělat z něj čtvrtou základní dovednost: čtení, psaní, počítání … a rétorika. "
31 " Není náhoda, že v kostele můžeme slyšet každý týden kázání, které obsahuje tytéž věci stále dokola, jen pokaždé trochu jinak. Je-li důležitá myšlenka zabalena v čerstvém příběhu a dobře podána, může z ní být skvělá řeč. "
32 " Když se amerického prezidenta Woodrowa Wilsona jednou zeptali, jak dlouho mu trvá příprava projevu, odpověděl: To záleží na jeho délce. Jedná-li se o desetiminutovou řeč, trvá mi to celé dva týdny. Pokud má projev trvat půl hodiny, zabere mi příprava týden. A pokud mohu mluvit tak dlouho, jak chci, nepotřebuji vůbec žádnou přípravu. Jsem vždy připraven. "
33 " It can be a simple how-to. Or a human insight illustrated with the power of a story. Or a beautiful image that has meaning. Or an event you wish might happen in the future. Or perhaps just a reminder of what matters most in life. "
34 " dobrý esej obsahuje odpovědi na tři otázky: Co? No a co? A co teď? "
35 " Je pozoruhodné, že nejméně jedna třetina těch nejsledovanějších přednášek, které kdy na TEDu zazněly, slajdy vůbec nevyužívají. "
36 " So instead, start with theirs. It’s only from that common ground that they can begin to build your idea inside their minds. "
37 " Inspiration is like love. You don’t get it by pursuing it directly. "
38 " the end of the talk, Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon, who was seated in the center of the audience, rose to his feet and began clapping. And the whole room stood with him. It was as if the TED community had collectively decided, in just a few seconds, that it would support this new chapter of TED after all. "
39 " Reputation is everything. "
40 " there are also many people (often female) who massively underestimate the value of their work, and their learning, and their insights. "