Planning, Startups, StoriesChris Anderson on What Makes a Great TED Talk – Planning, Startups, Stories https://timberry.bplans.com Tim Berry on business planning, starting and growing your business, and having a life in the meantime. Thu, 06 May 2021 19:14:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 <![CDATA[Chris Anderson on What Makes a Great TED Talk]]> https://timberry.bplans.com/chris-anderson-on-what-makes-a-great-ted-talk/ https://timberry.bplans.com/chris-anderson-on-what-makes-a-great-ted-talk/#respond Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:47:22 +0000 https://timberry.bplans.com/?p=12543 For a video today I found this delightful TED talk about TED talks. TED, which stands for technology, education, and design, has become an amazing collection of great 5-to-20-minute talks, some of the best anywhere. If you want examples of great public speaking, excellent presentations, you go to TED. So when I was at the...

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]]> For a video today I found this delightful TED talk about TED talks. TED, which stands for technology, education, and design, has become an amazing collection of great 5-to-20-minute talks, some of the best anywhere. If you want examples of great public speaking, excellent presentations, you go to TED. So when I was at the TED site browsing and saw this one about what makes a great TED talk, I couldn’t resist. And I was surprised, at first, but this makes so much sense.

TED founder Chris Anderson talks about what makes a great TED talk, and it’s not what I would have thought. It’s not the story you share, the secret you disclose, or finishing with an inspiring call to action. “No,” he says …

Your number one task as a speaker is to transfer into your listeners’ minds an extraordinary gift, a strange and beautiful object, that we call an idea.

You can click here for the original on the TED site.

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