Think Faster, Talk Smarter with Matt Abrahams 

For everyone that is watching this video. Your time for greatness is coming!

Key titles #1. Tame the Anxiety Beast. #2. Maximise Mediocrity. (So you can achieve greatness) - Reduce cognitive load. #3. Mind Your Mindset. - i) Not yet ii) Yes, and. iii) Next play iv) Missed take #4. Don't just do something... stand there - Listen; Pace. Space. Grace #5. STRUCTURE Your Spontaneity - What? So What? Now What? #6. The F-word: FOCUS - Have a Goal: Know, Feel, Do. (What do I want the audience to Know, How do I want them to Feel, What do I want them to Do) - Sentence starters, pitch (structure): What if you could... So that... For example... That's not all...

Excellent video. The best tips for better speech I have ever heard include 1. Be knowledgeable on many topics and be a subject matter expert in your area. 2. Prepare your speech. Think about what you are going to say. There is no shame in writing your speech out. 3. Read out loud every day. Just as a singer will not improve with mouthing the words silently an orator needs to practice saying words. 4. Speak slow. 5. Smile and look very comfortable. 6. Concentrate fully on your speech to get in the zone. Don't get distracted and don't lose focus. 7. Role model a great speaking. Watch videos from Obama, Jay Leno, Josh Hawley and other great speakers. Watch their head, hands and other body movement. 8. Practice giving speeches preferrable out loud or at very least in your mind. 9. If you are given a tough question, answer it in frameworks rather than being potentially wrong with the answer. 10. Ask clarifying questions before you give your answer.

This is God sent. I blush and perspire and it has really destroyed my life. I am 38 years old now and still faces this issue. Somehow as a younger person I thought, that it would go away as I grow older, but it never did. I just came home after having dinner at a friends place and while socializing my anxiety kicked in and I blushed and started perspiring again. Went home dejected, fired up my P.C and decided, my time's better spent learning Japanese then wallowing in self pity, but for some reason the app won't open. So opened RU-vid and this was in my recommendation. I will use this knowledge and better myself from this day onward. Thank You

I always try to remind myself that I’m just trying to help the people I’m presenting to. If you’re just there to help, and focus on that, you can take yourself out of the equation.

Step 1. Manage Anxiety, Step 2. Get out of our own way, Step 3. See it as an Opportunity Step 4. Listen Well Step 5. Messaging

I found you in RU-vid by amazing accident, and I have been watching three videos on a road, I'm going to give a class for medical interpreters in Montana, and all your videos that I watched help me to feel more confident and get more ideas for my next class in March 2024. God bless your knowledge 🙏

🎉 Thank you RU-vid and Stanford Alumni for this free lecture and class... I've learned what was much-needed for my success in the future ❤. #thinktillyousweat

It always surprises me how many people have a hard time with small talk. This info is necessary!

I’m brand new to sales and struggle with social anxiety. I really appreciate your videos. They are very helpful!

One of the rare time I open my note book to study a talk. Thanks for the content. It’s so valuable

To this day, i didn't know what small talk means. I am glad i have searched it on here and came across this treasure of communication skills.

Amazing presentation again from Matt!! I've been trying to follow him since the presentation 9 years ago and it really helps me

I believe I’ve seen him do this lecture before and still amazing.

Outstanding lecture! I wish Matt had been my professor in college. Very engaging to the very end and extremely useful. There are clear applications across my life communicating with my family, in my roles in business development and in podcasting. Thanks, Matt!

I really appreciate for sharing this great lecture.

I am not a native English speaker, yet your ideas was clear and concise. It has helped me in my endeavor to get over anxiety in speaking and in maximizing mediocrity to achieve greatness. i wish you the best in your book and lectures. Your lectures and methodology will help millions of folks.

I really love the way he narrated I'm like when I have to talk I go freeze so it's really good for me to exercise this to reduce my condition

Love this guy! He's like a serious Steve Martin, very engaging speaker!

These are really good advices. "Structure is a tool", I love this.

Thank you for sharing!

“I’m still a Work in Progress” love your openness here. 😂

Thank you Matt. I hope to one day come back and repeat, reflect and seek feedback, from others and myself. Anyone else what like to share there feedback?

Purchased the audio book. Thank you.

thank you Steve Martin!

This was also a wonderful video to learn from. I get real tense when attempting to "say the right things"; so thank you for uploading this content for others to evolve from

Matt thanks a lot for this conference and video resource. It's super useful, loved the pitching framework... I'll practice practice practice!

This was useful-thank you.

This is the first time I have watched the video that I engaged from the beginning to the end and also want to comment immediately in the box here although I have listened to a large amount of video in the past. I felt it so fascinating because it is such a informative source that I can apply in reality. All of these things come up from my mind and I am so grateful for RU-vid as it recommended me hearing your sharing. Thank you 🎉🎉

Wow!!! So glad I found you again!!!! Thank you

Thank you so much sir 🙏

Very helpful! Thank you!

Thank you! Appreciated.

Structure mindset and messaging..thanks

I have been listening to your podcast on spotify for 2 years...now i get to see you :) thank you for the show...and love your voice and pace!

It’s dificult to gasp the fact that we as a society need a “ how to have a conversation” course. It’s like teaching droids how to behave. Makes me sad. I appreciate the content nonetheles

Knowledge is power

Great Teacher ❤

Love is a gift that comes to my mind 🤔

I found you in RU-vid by amazing accident, and I have been watching three videos on a road, I'm going to give a class for medical interpreters in Montana, and all your videos that I watched help me to feel more confident and get more ideas for my next class in March 2024. God bless your knowledge

Thanks more for this tips ,thanks again you faced me to the right way

Seriously, pretty fantastic! 🎉

I have heard many talks on this talk and this is the best so far, it makes the sense straight away. I have already watched it multiple times and will listen to it again and again. Thanks a lot for such a life changing coaching on communication skills

1)What? So what? Now what?. 2)Tell me the time, don’t make me a clock. 3) Structure/focus. pitching: what if you could, so that, for example, and that’s not all

This was so good thank you

Wish I had this lecture fifty years ago.

🎉 thanks for the advice, as we speak I have a problem my mind just shut especially presenting sermon

When i was teaching HS Drama 1, i was not teaching acting... i was teaching "how to speak publicly" and "make friends". Sure, we did it through games and scene work, but i think it helped.

His pitch was awesome 👌

Absolutely need to slow things down!

Remember to do the following six things each time someone puts you in the spot. Brilliant. Edit: Okay most of this stuff is actually pretty good.

I watched his video 9 years ago, and still good till this day

It,s First english vedio i ever completed

I love Steve Martin

- manage anxiety - get out of Our Own Way - see it as an opportunity - listen well - structure your responses

Amazing❤

Speaking in the moment - is something that I struggle the most. I’m frozen all the time 😢 And I am in my 30s

Next play ❤️

I love Steve Martin.

This is really great. But i fell asleep really fast also xD.

That's good conversation

That was my problem in my last job interview, I felt so embarrassed 😢

be present oriented

Me in the toilet cubicle: “I slit a sheet…” My colleague in the next one: 👀👀👀

exhale, cold bottle, be present with walking, song, counting backwards, and tongue twister (i slip a sheet), be mediocre, what, so what, now what

Our internal thought processes may not always align perfectly with external communication. We might have a clear understanding of our thoughts internally, but conveying them to others requires translating them into a format that may not capture all the nuances of our internal experience.

Ss matter of Fact: The Best Tool...

6:00 manage anxiety 8:00 find sources of anxiety

Buddy made me feel like an idiot right off the bat with that Fs question

Guys I can’t find the fffs even when I pause

3:45 Tame the anxiety beast

Think faster , talk smarter

00:00:01:How to speak better in the moment if you have recently had to 00:01:34:6 Steps to Be Better at Talking in the Moment 00:04:10:How do you feel when you watch a nervous speaker present now I 00:06:29:Thermo Regulators for Your Body 00:07:28:How to manage anxiety if I didn't talk about a 00:09:44:How to maximize mediocrity in the moment we get in our own 00:11:32:When I am evaluating and judging everything I'm saying as 00:12:57:How to play a simple improvisation game with me 00:15:10:Step How we want to do well and we want to make sure we 00:17:01:How to see things opportunities the first comes from this notion of growth mindset 00:19:57:How to move to the next play if you're an athlete 00:22:56:Listening most of us are not good listeners we listen just enough 00:24:51:Three Things Pace Space Grace to listen well you have to give yourself 00:26:19:How to listen better if you don't respond right away 00:28:43:Why I was teased mercilessly because Matt rhymes with everything okay 00:31:17:This is a yes thumbs up yes thumbs down no no 00:34:04:Where are we going do I have the right shoes on should I go 00:35:14:3 simple questions what so what now what the what is your idea your 00:37:19:Structure is incredibly helpful in spontaneous communication in the new book 00:38:40:It is much better to be Compact and concise in what you're 00:40:48:How to speak more effectively in the moment what if you could feel 00:42:24:Do you see how easy that was do you see how the structure helped

Executive summary: be present, be present, mistakes are the main way to learn, be more present.

Abhi 2024 meh aa video dak raha hoo

are those his...?😂 btw it's a really nice lecture..ill apply this in my work😊

Anyone can explain to me about the 6F?

I am that person Dr Siamak Baghai Arassi

Despite the title talk faster I feel like this video is 2hrs long , may because I'm a slow listner 🙂

I am seeing this and I think they are actually 5 Fs in there

👍

Good morning sir

Instructions unclear, I failed the interrogation for the triple homicide

still findinf only 5 "f"s

MQU❤

How did he find 6 Fs in that "quote"?

More then 44 minutes without using mmm, hmm, aaand , incredible🎉

Takeaway tongue twister : I slit a sheet , a sheet I slit , and on that slitted sheet I sit 😅

I freeze 🥶 ?????

9/10 Indian telephone scammers agree

Am I the only one? But I can only find 3 Fs not 6😢

Speak* smarter.

there are 5 f’s tho

Don’t think about it…

You can find Ariana grande's music here - yes, and? 😂

👍🐝🦷🌹🍻

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How many fs?

maybe a tip on keeping nips from getting piercing hard... 🤣

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