{"id":4391,"date":"2016-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasugacommunications.com\/ja\/the-terrifying-truth-behind-my-tedx-talk-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T08:36:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T08:36:27","slug":"the-terrifying-truth-behind-my-tedx-talk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasugacommunications.com\/ja\/the-terrifying-truth-behind-my-tedx-talk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Terrifying Truth Behind My TEDx Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u3053\u306e\u30d3\u30c7\u30aa\u3067\u306f\u3001\u79c1\u304cTEDx\u306e\u30b9\u30c6\u30fc\u30b8\u3067\u30d1\u30cb\u30c3\u30af\u306b\u306a\u3063\u3066\u3057\u307e\u3063\u305f\u6642\u306e\u304a\u8a71\u3092\u3054\u7d39\u4ecb\u3057\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002 \u30d3\u30c7\u30aa\u306f\u82f1\u8a9e\u3067\u3059\u3002 \u305c\u3072\u3054\u89a7\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\uff01<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bWyQj6172Wk?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Can&#8217;t see the video player above? <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bWyQj6172Wk\" target=\"_blank\">Watch it on YouTube<\/a><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Transcript<\/h2>\n<p>{0:00} Hello! In this video, I\u2019m going to share with you the truth behind <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/tedx\/events\/20542\">my TEDxRoppongi talk on September 3, 2016<\/a><\/span>. And along with that I\u2019ll be giving you some tips that I hope will help you the next time you present.<\/p>\n<p>You may not be presenting at a TEDx, but maybe you have a conference coming up. Or maybe you\u2019re presenting in a sales pitch. Or maybe you\u2019re presenting in a team meeting. I hope these will be useful for you.<\/p>\n<p>And first of all, I just want to say that the event itself was fantastic! I totally enjoyed it &#8212; the event itself. And I really appreciated being asked to present there.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to tell you the real truth about what was going on in my mind during that time\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0in the hope that it will help you \u00a0&#8212; along with some tips, too.<\/p>\n<p>So everything was going great before the time that I went on stage. So just before me there was this amazing 3D hologram show from Hide,\u00a0who was a Japanese singer who passed away several years ago. But he was kind of brought back to life in this hologram show. It was really loud music. It was really exciting. I was backstage and I was dancing around. And it was great.<\/p>\n<p>{1:22} I also did the things I know to do as an experienced presenter. So I\u2019ve presented hundreds of times. I coach people in presentation skills, so I knew the things to do.<\/p>\n<p>For example, getting plenty of <b>oxygen into the body<\/b> to help, so that you can relax and you can breathe. And making sure I drank plenty of water, <b>sips of water<\/b>, so that my voice wouldn\u2019t dry out during the presentation. So I was doing all these things. I was feeling pretty good. And even to going on stage. I walked on stage. <b>I was confident as I walked on stage<\/b>. And then <b>I stood, and I looked around<\/b>. And it was great, and I went into my first lines. My very, very rehearsed first lines.<\/p>\n<p>{2:08} <b>It\u2019s always important to make sure you really know what you\u2019re going to say when you get out there in the beginning<\/b>. And it was all good. And then something started to happen.<\/p>\n<p>So the first one that happened was that I missed a line from my script. Now I usually say to people don\u2019t work from a script. Because if you work from a script, the tendency is that you\u2019re thinking about well, <em>what do I say next? what do I say next?<\/em> &#8212; even if you\u2019re well-rehearsed &#8212; <em>what do I say next?<\/em> And that means you\u2019re in your own head, and you\u2019re not focusing on the audience. In this particular case, we were asked to work with a script because we were going to be presenting, and there would be Japanese subtitles at the sides of the stage. So I created a script. And I missed a line towards the beginning, and that threw me.<\/p>\n<p>A voice came up in my head saying, <em>Oh, no you missed a line! How\u2019s the story going to work now? Oh, panic, panic!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>{3:14} <b>So my first tip is actually don\u2019t work from a script<\/b>. It\u2019s really, really hard working from a script. That then moves on to the next problem that happened. Which was the slides didn\u2019t transition as I had thought they were going to do. So we were using a clicker, but we only got to use that clicker on the day. And so I wasn\u2019t quite used to it, and I must have pressed too quickly or something. So the slides didn\u2019t work as planned.<\/p>\n<p>{3:47} So my tip there is to <b>make sure you can rehearse as much as possible in the environment where you\u2019ll be presenting<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The next one &#8212; and this was a really big one. So as I mentioned, it\u2019s a special theater &#8212; it\u2019s actually the first of its kind in TED history, from what I heard, using hologram 3D technology. So the way it works is that there is a stage, the speaker is on the stage, and there\u2019s a kind of black mesh screen at an angle in front of the presenter and the slides are projected onto that. So it gives this hologram effect to the audience.<\/p>\n<p>The audience can see the presenter really, really clearly. However, the presenter cannot see the audience. The presenter cannot hear the audience. And this was very difficult for me to deal with. I\u2019m the sort of person, I like a very interactive presentation. I like to be able to see the smiles on people\u2019s faces. That kind of reassures me that things are going okay.<\/p>\n<p>{4:58} That was not happening in this case. In fact, the kind of image that came to my mind was that I could see that there were 150 heads &#8212; black heads, basically &#8212; vaguely behind this black screen. But I couldn\u2019t see any facial expression. I couldn\u2019t hear a thing. And so to me it was a bit like being under attack from 150 faceless and silent aliens! So I went into a kind of fight or flight mode. It was like survival. <em>Oh my goodness, I need to run away!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>{5:40} And I really thought for a moment that I was going to run offstage, like you may have seen the Michael Bay incident from a few years ago. I kind of thought that was going to happen. So there\u2019s all of this panic in my head, voices saying, <em>oh my goodness, you\u2019re a presentation skills expert, and this is going to be an absolute disaster. What\u2019s the video going to look like? And lots of people are going to see it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>{6:08} So lots of panic going on. But somehow a little voice managed to get through and say, <em>Think about the audience. You must go on.<\/em> So I did manage to go on, and I stumbled over some lines a little bit, but I managed to continue. And then I got more into my flow and I finished strong. And it was great by the end. It was a really, really terrifying experience for me.<\/p>\n<p>{6:43} So my third tip there is <b>think about the audience<\/b>. And this is what I say when I\u2019m coaching all the time because thinking about the audience is the most important part of your presentation.<\/p>\n<p>So the tips are 1) Don\u2019t use a script, if you can. 2) Practice in the environment. Rehearse in the environment as much as possible. 3) Think about your audience.<\/p>\n<p>This was such a fantastic experience and I\u2019m really, really grateful to the organizers, especially Amber Chook and Daiki Toshima, who are volunteers, but they were fantastic. I\u2019m also grateful to Alex Fazel,\u00a0who introduced me to the organizer and gave me this opportunity. So really appreciate this.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that these few tips are going to be useful to you the next time you present.<\/p>\n<p>And if you\u2019re interested in more, please look at the <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"http:\/\/sasugacommunications.com\/subscribe\/\">Sasuga! Tips for You newsletter<\/a><\/span>. It goes out every Tuesday with tips for communication skills, presentation skills, running effective meetings, participating in conference calls, all sorts of things you need in global business.<\/p>\n<p>And if you\u2019re a Facebook user, you may want to <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/sasugacommunity\/\">join us in the Sasuga! Community<\/a><\/span>, which is a closed Facebook group. Just go there. Click to get yourself approved. I will approve you as soon as I\u2019m online. And it would be great to interact with you there. You can post what\u2019s going well, what you\u2019re struggling with. You can encourage other people, inspire other people, and get encouragement and inspiration and support too.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there. Hope you\u2019ve enjoyed this. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3053\u306e\u30d3\u30c7\u30aa\u3067\u306f\u3001\u79c1\u304cTEDx\u306e\u30b9\u30c6\u30fc\u30b8\u3067\u30d1\u30cb\u30c3\u30af\u306b\u306a\u3063\u3066\u3057\u307e\u3063\u305f\u6642\u306e\u304a\u8a71\u3092\u3054\u7d39\u4ecb\u3057\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002 \u30d3\u30c7\u30aa\u306f\u82f1\u8a9e\u3067\u3059\u3002 \u305c\u3072\u3054\u89a7\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\uff01 Can&#8217;t see the video player above? Watch it on YouTube. Transcript {0:00} Hello! In this video, I\u2019m going to share with you the truth behind my TEDxRoppongi talk on September 3, 2016. 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