Tristan De Montebello

Why most public speaking advice is wrong—and how to finally overcome your speaking anxiety | Tristan de Montebello (CEO & co-founder of Ultraspeaking)

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Opening
Tristan de Montebello (00:00:00): People tend to get into a public speaking voice. We'll be in a class and they'll be chatting normally and look super normal. And then we'll say, "Okay, now just a timer, I'm just going to give you a speech. Just speak for 60 seconds so we get a baseline," and I click play, and suddenly I say, "The important part about doing this," and they enter into a different version of themselves, a professional version, whatever that would mean....

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Low-ego framing
Montebello (00:00:00): People tend to get into a public speaking voice. We'll be in a class and they'll be chatting normally and look super normal. And then we'll say, "Okay, now just a timer,...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (01:54:13): But Tristan, thank you so much for being here. This was incredible. One of the most interesting episodes I've done. Two final questions....

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Low-ego framing
Lenny Rachitsky (00:18:53): And in speaking, it's the same thing. People tend to give a...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
it to here, then I really appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you for being here with us, and what I would love for you to do is to apply this. We said in the beginning,...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.