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All of us were born to talk.\u00a0 God gave us the gift of language so that we could be close, not just right.<\/p>\nAll of us were born to talk.\u00a0 God gave us the gift of language so that we could be close, not just right.<\/p>\n
But some people talk so well, we call them public speakers.\u00a0 They speak professionally, and the vast majority, my experience teaches me, do it rather poorly; or at least on the level of mediocrity.<\/p>\n
The truth is, all of us are speakers.<\/strong> We have to use words, at work, at business, at home, in casual conversation.\u00a0 We use words of persuasion, depression, joy, and pain.\u00a0 The question isn\u2019t, \u201cAre you a speaker?\u201d The real question is, \u201cAre you boring?\u201d <\/strong> The worst sin that any speaker, whether they be a public speaker, a writer, communicator, someone who writes on Twitter, or Facebook, can ever commit is the sin of being boring.<\/p>\n Why are so many speakers boring?\u00a0 Life isn\u2019t boring.\u00a0 People aren\u2019t boring.\u00a0 Situations and circumstances aren\u2019t boring.\u00a0 Life is full of drama.\u00a0 We have thousands and thousands of words from which to choose.\u00a0 We can put them together in any form or fashion we like.\u00a0 We can speak with a hush or in a loud voice.\u00a0 We can persuade or inform. There are a thousand different ways in which we can speak in a way that can change the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m convinced that one of the reasons there are so many mediocre speakers is that we don\u2019t have an aim when we speak.\u00a0 The problem with so many people is they don\u2019t have a target<\/strong>.\u00a0 And without a target, you\u2019re liable to hit something that you don\u2019t want.<\/p>\n As a professional speaker, writer, and communicator, here is my one advice.\u00a0 Before you stand up to speak have an aim, a goal, for your talk. <\/strong> For me, it\u2019s to change the world.\u00a0 I know that\u2019s bold, but I settle for nothing less.\u00a0 I know that if I speak to the hearts of people, to their pain, and their desire for hope and meaning in life; if I do it long enough and well enough, that ultimately things are going to change.<\/p>\n Maybe your goals are a little less lofty.\u00a0 But they shouldn\u2019t be.\u00a0 Speak for change; to change your company, your family, your child, your husband.\u00a0 Speak to persuade, not just to inform, and you\u2019ll be an interesting speaker.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All of us were born to talk.\u00a0 God gave us the gift of language so that we could be close, not just right. But some people talk so well, we call them public speakers.\u00a0 They speak professionally, and the vast majority, my experience teaches me, do it rather poorly; or at least on the level … Continue reading “The Worst Sin a Speaker Can Commit”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}