4 Key points: 1) Approach -Think of speaking as a positive opportunity to share your ideas with people 2) Audience -What does your audience need to know from you? What do they already know? What do they expect of you? What's their attitude about your topic? 3)Context -Context is important: What time is it? What emotional state is your audience in? What emotional state do you want to put them in? Where are you physically? 4) Structure Structure your talk to keep people engaged! Try: a) Past - Present - Future: This is what the situation was, here is what it is now, here's how we want to change the situation for the future b)Problem - solution - benefit: Here's the problem we're facing. Here's the solution I recommend. Here's the benefit to be expected c)What - so what? - now what? : Here's the issue. Here's why you should care. Here's what we should do.

As a foreign language learner, his speech was very easy and clear for me to understand!

Step 1: Approach 2:00 Step 2: Audience 4:11 Step 3: Context 7:54 Step 4: Structure 10:51

Summary: The 4 tools for getting a message through to an audience 1. Approach - Think of any perplexing situation as an *opportunity* to share what is it that you're thinking, not a threat to who you are. - Henceforth you become more *open* to such situations. 2. Audience - Understand what your audience needs by categorizing those needs as their *knowledge* of the subject, their *expectations* for what you'd do, and their *attitudes* towards what you're saying. - *Appreciate* the audience, tailor your message to suit their needs. 3. Context - Oftentimes, we find ourselves in different positions as we pitch our message. - Pay attention to all the involving factors be it the *timing* of your message, your *tone* of voice (whether you're speaking or writing, emotional content matters just as much as the informational content), and the *location* in which the message is delivered. 4. Structure - We as humans remember things 40% better when they are structured. - That's how we can learn to *group together* pieces of information just like we used to remember cell phone numbers. - Structures set *expectations* for the audience while the message is being delivered, therefore it helps to have a map for your speech/ essay/... - "How to help you know what comes next" Here are examples of some types of orderly message organizations: + *Past-Present-Future* structure (chronological order) + *Problem-Solution-Benefit* structure (one of the most persuasive) + *What-SoWhat-NowWhat* structure (one of the most versatile)

One of the best, easy to understand, very well structured, effectively communicated TED talks 💯👌👍

Such an amazing and inspiring talk! An entire course on effective communication condensed into 16 minutes. Respect

I love public speaking and often watch presentations such as this one. Only they're NOT like this one! 16 minutes of pure gold. Amazing. Thank you so much.

I actually applauded at the end! 🙏 I 'hate' public speaking even though I do it often and these tools are going to assist me. My best take away was thinking about the needs of the audience and how you as a speaker, best serve that. Wonderful talk!

Was finding a way to improve my presentation skills, this was definitely useful. The proper mindset and the structure helped me compose a talk that was easy to understand. Thank you for sharing!

I'm an introvert who has problems with talking to others, and this TED Talk widen my horizonts on a subject. Thanks for great speech, Matt Abrahams! :)

This man speaks so clear and easy to understand foreign students. This is the best clear speech I've ever listened

This's very helpful as well as life changing talks.Because it makes people to rethink and reorganise. Thank you TED Talk.

dont judge TED talks anymore. They are here to share, you are here to learn. Never judge if you find out something bad. If it isn't good, forget it, then find another thing better for you. dont judge them. cause they are sharing here to help you!

Excellent and informative talk. I will use it for the IELTS speaking session

Very interesting, marked in my favorite box. I'll use this at our meetings. Would love to learn more from this guy..👍

Love this! Speaking as a positive opportunity to share your ideas with people!!

Wow! Very fantastic talk. It has drained all the fear I had to speak in public

this speech is very good. It's practical, you can use his tips to apply to the real-life. i have to admit that these TEDtalks have very good quality both in content and knowledge (may be not all of its, but overall, YES!).

Public speaking can be a powerful tool for making a difference in the world. Thanks for sharing this positive perspective.

Great insights on communication with a brilliant flawless delivery! Thanks Matt.

Dont know how many times i have watched this video but this has been a game changer. When ever i have to talk to audience, i do watch it multiple times and this gives me confidence everytime i do. Thanks a lot

I started listening to TEDx Talks a few days ago to improve my communication skills and i must say I LOVE IT HERE! I'm learning so much. thank you to all TEDx speakers.

I must admit it.. Im getting addicted to these ted talks ..with good reason..

I love it when teachers "cold call" me it makes the class more interesting and more off a learning experience. I love sharing my opinion about the lesson.

I must admit it, I'm getting addicted to these Ted talk, because it help me practice my English listening, and because it motivates me.

This is the second time I heard him talk. He is brilliant! Thank you Professor!

Just discovered and love these videos! Very good teachings and Motivational

A wonderful talk. Your message was received loud and clear. God bless you.

Good explanation and examples, prof, and with your clear and slow speaking, it makes me understand it well as a beginner in learning English. Gracias

The main reason why public speaking is fearsome is because you become an easy target. It's you, alone, against a crowd. Being outnumbered is never a good position to be in. That's why leaders and people in power have many security measures, quite often including life threatening mechanisms, such as all kinds of weapons. But also, most people are raised within a society with laws, and law enforcers. All kids from an early age are domesticated, they learn they get punished for defying figures of authority. They get physically punished, psychologically punished (shamed, grounded, ridiculed, deprived of personal rights). Eventually most people reach a certain level of domestication, and behave in a "docile enough" manner. Still, its is dangerous to be alone, or to be a minority. People who go on stages are generally alone at the stage, but there's a whole mechanism behind them. There's the power of the organization. There are bouncers, there are police officers who might be called. There are many kinds of actual, real time, present restrictive/protective mechanism, as well as potential, accessory ones. So, the real why MOST PEOPLE are afraid of putting themselves in the spotlight, is because most people are not in power. Most people subconsciously (or consciously) know they are socially weak. Most people don't have guns, most people don't have bouncers, most people don't have a solid safety system around them. On the other hand, people who were raised in more safe environments, who were trained not to fear attacks, can generally become "more confident", as they don't have the life threatening sensation of being outnumbered. There are also the ones who become confident because of progressive acquired power, in a figurative comparison (an analogy) , it's like people who get used to being beat up, lynch-mobbed, and simply toughen up, and get used to being in life threatening situations. Normally kids that practice fighting sports, or heavy contact sports, become more confident overall, and specially become somewhat fearless in terms of physical injuries, when most average people are somewhat fearsome of getting hurt, getting into physical fights, etc. And I haven't watched the video yet... these thoughts just came to mind from the 2 first minutes.

i have fear in public speaking but i always watch the video that give tips on how to overcome fear in public speaking i learn that yeah it could be possible for everyone who have interest to be an effective speaker . thanks a lot for this very informative video so great, i love watching it♥

Thank you Matt... I learn to deliver my ideas from your way.. well structured...

Knowledge is the greatest gift in my opinion. We have a brains to process knowledge and make our own beliefs. We have souls to know if what we belive in is just. We have mouths to share our knowledge. We have ears to listen to others knowledge. We have hands and feet to put our knowledge into action. Everything has a purpose. A bad thing can turn into a good thing and a good thing can turn into a bad thing.

Amazing!

The best ted talk I have ever watched. 😊😊😊. He has great intonation and clear voice.

WOAH forget just scraping the surface of TED talks by only checking out the ones with 1 000 000+ views... this RIGHT HERE is where it's at people! I just spent an hour or two watching talks with less than 10 000 views and these people are brilliant and deserve every second of your attention as much as the ones in the more popular videos! Keep sharing TED, love you

Thank you Azim Jamal for this simple, authentic, brilliant and very inspiring talk. Transformational.

Ted always gives you emotional motivation in a right time

That guy really has improved my skills for public speaking!!! ... and my aspirations too!!!

Very interesting how opinion is so divided on this talk. I see it this way: Fluent English speakers sense how uncomfortable this guy is on stage. His delivery is mechanical to them, and they don't have the patience to wait on his painfully slow delivery. But English learners genuinely appreciate this kind of information presented in a clear deliberate manner. It makes me wonder who the target audience is. I was interested but bored to death. So glad Quick Talks put up a nice summary.

Thank you ted talk, having wonderful speakers on your platform changes peoples lives. In turn changing the world.

Thank you very much! You have help me improve listening skill ,your topic is very interesting ,meaningful for me and every people.

“Don’t listen to respond,listen to understand”

Great teaching. Definitely benefited!

It's about their needs. We need to get to know who they are; their level of knowledge, their expectations. And you can choose to either meet their expectations or defy them. I love his tips. It's really a mental exercise before execution. Think before you speak. *Understand your audience and what they need.* Context: time of day (i.e. in the A.M. Energy needed), emotion (and information), location (it matters) and structure (organized: chronologically, Problem/ Solution, What? So what? Now what?). Structure keeps people together.

this doctor is awesome, he has many awesome talks like above. he is inspiring

These talk tell me about the patterns of structure that we use in our speaking.thanks to ted talk.

Clear message, thanks a lot

What a great speech!!!!

Waw Mansha Allah i used to other ways to talk to my audience but this going to change my ways little bit . You helped us alot . Thank you.

Before we can listen to others we need to listen to ourselves 💜

This is now my favorite talk. 👏👏👏

Be confident while speaking Talk Fast, Think Smart 1 Approach - Change ur mindset - Approach it in an open way 2. Audience - Need to hear - What they know - Expectations of me - violate

Good information.. Really useful to be good communicator and teachers

Hi,Matt. Thanks for your nice talk. but I have some questions in terms of context, If the context is not good - the time, emotion or location, what should we do? We should stop talking or if not, how to make a good context for a talk? Thank you.

Knowing your audience is very important in communication

Thank you a lot for such an excelent class

Профессор по коммуникации рассказывает том, как думать быстро и говорить умно. На что обратить внимание: 1. Подход. 2. Аудитория, с которой говорю. 3. Контекст, в котором нахожусь. 4. Структура речи. Подробнее: 1. Открытый Подход. Коммуникацию целесообразно рассматривать, как возможность поделиться своими мыслями, идеями, убеждениями. 2. Аудитория. Лучше думать: "Что нужно услышать моей аудитории?", а не "Что мне нужно сказать?". Я настраиваюсь на собеседника, чтобы удовлетворить его потребности. И для этого нужно провести разведку. Полезные вопросы для анализа аудитории: а) "Что они знают по теме?" б) "Чего они от меня ожидают?" (иногда очень полезно нарушать ожидания). в) "Каково их отношение?" (они поддерживают, они против, им всё равно, они сомневаются. Важно понимать, что нужно моей аудитории.) 3. Контекст, в котором я говорю. Стоит учитывать: а) Время: "В какое время я выступаю?" б) Эмоции: "В каком состоянии слушатели?" в) Локация: "Где я выступаю?" 4. Структура. Как я структурирую моё сообщение? Структурированную информацию на 40% легче воспринимать. Выделяю важное. Делю на порции. Виды структур: а) хронология (очень удобна и понятна) б) "проблема-решение-польза решения" (очень убедительна) в) "что, так что, теперь что" (проблема, почему это важно; что будет дальше). Структура объединяет и помогает на потерять аудиторию. Итак, если я правильно понимаю сообщение и эффективно его доношу, я могу добиться больших результатов.

WOW. I LOVE THIS MAN. i want to be a teacher and now i found my role model

me : watching his videos while thinking 🤔 💭 I always get angry at my teacher when he told me to think and answer cuzz i don’t even know what’s his lecture about But now I realized he actually trying to help students to use more of their brain thinking not just learning

I hated my communication teacher, she pushed me to talk more and be social. She never talked about what this man talked about in this video. This is going to change my life

great speaker, and very practical information!

Be smart, fast thinking is audience important.What my audience need to hear? Who they are? What their knowledge and expectation. What they expect to you? What is their attitude? Firstly you have to contact. And you have to think of the time then communicate of the feeling of others. Structure keeps people together 1.Past-present-future 2.Problem-solution-Benefit 3.What so what now what

His talk feels me smooth touch in my heart❤

Such a good talk

Really really good speech. I love you, Matt.

He is just the awesome man iv'e ever seen in TED Talk's.

Excellent and refreshing ideas for positive communication! Thanks.... I've an interview soon : )

Thank you for sharing your experiences and message.

-throughout the speech, he went back to reiterate and summarise the points he already went over to keep the audiences attention -what does my audience need to hear? (you are in service to them) -structure sets expectations, the worst thing you can do is to lose structure

7:48 "If guilt & shame doesn't work, can't teach them" --> Honestly I find it true now with team member at office, not just elementary students.

It's not a oppotunity of threathening, not a oppotunity of failure. Great QUOTE!

I love matt Abrahams as well as his video lectures

It gives for few amazing tips for Think fast and Smart talk Thank you Sir

I’m here to learn English and benefit more information or knowledge from this lovely channel❤😊

That is a great lecture, and I would really like to translate it (I mean, add subtitles) in to portuguese to share with my friends. Could you please open (unlock?) the "add subtitles" option?

Best Ted Talk ever. I just watched it secound time and it’s awesome!

Reminds me of the Pendleton Model of ICE (Ideas, Concerns and Expectations) used by clinicians, when communicating and understanding the needs of patients.

Wow this guy is one of thr great speakers 💯

I strongly recommend an earlier lecture of his held in standford, in fact that very lecture bring me here, in that he excels big time so that at the end was a Q&A in which people was praising him about the lecture and its usefulness somewhat he left me wanting more from him and thats why im here but the thing is that I get a little bit dissapointed when i finished watching this, simply put (I think) a 20 min ted talk isnt an appropiate way for some lectures to be presented, some works end up being fine some just dont and I dont want to mean this ted to be a case in Point but certainly it seems to me that he should have approached it differently, in the other presentation mentioned he got the audience to engage in workshoping practical activities so people there experienced , lived first hand the words, the theory he preached so it Kind of made sense to me and for everyone involved being that time wasnt an issue, so I see many bad comments with which I partially agree but I just wanted to say give the man a chance and go and look for that lecture I m talking about, youll see something different and Who knows you maybe find it inspiring and change your opinion, just saying

This guys a good speaker. Must be a communication teacher

Super insightful.

Simple and Structured ........Thank you Sir

This is just like telling you how to write a good science paper without telling you how to become a good scientist.

By far the most compelling talk

WOW! Thank you! I really need professor like you

Good job sir. I really apreciate the way you speak.

Ted don't know u personally but u r a smart person and also the way you reffered to the audience just Guinness

Outstanding talk

Thank you for your talk ❤

I don't know why there are so many speaker say people are afriad of public speaking. As a teacher we did it everyday to the children,and I know everyone have done public speaking before,everyone seem fine. a little nervous doesn't mean that we are afraid.

Lovely content!

I must admit it.. I'm getting addicted to these ted talks ..with good reason..

As he began I surely thought this was going to be a very helpful tool But rather than "think fast and talk smart" it became "plan and structure "

This man is super awesome...anyway I guess he knows that very well

Practice and a little bit positive approach ❤

As i like talking this ted talk is gonna help me most in my favourite thing . Communication is the greatest weapon and saviour .

How to think fast, talk smart:- 1: Approach 2: Audience 3: Context 4: Structure

You helped me improve my speech thanks students liked me about it thank you very much

Hot tips, worth listening. What exactly we need is how to keep the attention of your audions