TED Talks: the Official TED Guide to Public Speaking

 Shirley J.                         Adult Non-Fiction                      Public Speaking,  TED Talks

TED Talks: the Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris Anderson   269 pages

The complete handbook for how to give a TED Talk, or really how to best present yourself while maintaining calm and keeping your audience interested from the time you walk out on the stage to when you wrap up and leave the stage.   Tried and true methods on what to do and what not to do when giving a speech, a presentation an informal talk.   The tips here are invaluable.  From talk about what you are passionate about and as if you are explaining it to your best friend.   What to do if your mind goes blank, you start to sweat and need a minute to find your place while standing in front of 10,000 people.   Chris Anderson shares tips on how to engage your audience and how not to begin your talk by boring them to death.   This is the best book on public speaking I have ever come across.   He cites many examples and gives names of some of the best speakers in the series and tells how to find their TED talks on YouTube.   So much good information here I recommend this to middle schoolers on up to senior citizens.  You can't start too early nor too late in learning how to speak comfortably in front of an audience.  Speakers, actors, politicians, teachers, preachers, students, everybody will benefit from reading this book.   I can't recommend it enough.   This is another of those books we all ought to be handed as guidebooks to life.  Excellent!