Your Speaking Value
Lincoln, Nebraska. Valencia Mueller stops at Wagner’s Food Pride and buys a single lottery ticket. She wins. “I had trouble catching my breath,” she says. “This only happens in dreams, or in the movies, not in real life.”
I think she overreacted.
Even if Valencia Mueller had won the ultimate payoff against odds of 54,979,155 to 1, it would have been no big deal, because Valencia had already won a much bigger lottery against much bigger odds. You see, Valencia Mueller had been born.
The bottom line of an A & M University report about specific birth odds is this: “The chance that you, meaning exactly you, would ever be born are 1 in 1.3 times ten to the twenty-ninth power.”
In other words... 130,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1.
You and I, my friend, have won the genetic lottery! Compared to the odds of being born, the odds are very good that you will be elected president of the United States. Those odds are only 115,191,743 to 1.
You have already won a lottery more amazing than human kind could ever devise. You have already been awarded a prize far richer than anything the world has to give.
Contributed by John H. Williams
My points...
1. The most valuable aspect of your presentation is you. This is the portion of the speech we debase the most, yet we should put the most stock in.
2. If the average speaker could see the value they offer as a human being with important insights and experiences, the impact of the message would exponentially increase.
3. Regardless of how powerful the information, YOUR style and skill are what bring it to life. Make your words breathe inside the listener.
4. Changing lives as a speaker is much more than cool techniques and a tight outline. It begins with who you are from the inside out.
You are alive. You are here. Make the most of it.
I think she overreacted.
Even if Valencia Mueller had won the ultimate payoff against odds of 54,979,155 to 1, it would have been no big deal, because Valencia had already won a much bigger lottery against much bigger odds. You see, Valencia Mueller had been born.
The bottom line of an A & M University report about specific birth odds is this: “The chance that you, meaning exactly you, would ever be born are 1 in 1.3 times ten to the twenty-ninth power.”
In other words... 130,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1.
You and I, my friend, have won the genetic lottery! Compared to the odds of being born, the odds are very good that you will be elected president of the United States. Those odds are only 115,191,743 to 1.
You have already won a lottery more amazing than human kind could ever devise. You have already been awarded a prize far richer than anything the world has to give.
Contributed by John H. Williams
My points...
1. The most valuable aspect of your presentation is you. This is the portion of the speech we debase the most, yet we should put the most stock in.
2. If the average speaker could see the value they offer as a human being with important insights and experiences, the impact of the message would exponentially increase.
3. Regardless of how powerful the information, YOUR style and skill are what bring it to life. Make your words breathe inside the listener.
4. Changing lives as a speaker is much more than cool techniques and a tight outline. It begins with who you are from the inside out.
You are alive. You are here. Make the most of it.
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