From the course: Delivery Tips for Speaking in Public

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Avoid memorizing your presentation

Avoid memorizing your presentation

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Avoid memorizing your presentation

- I routinely tell people try not to memorize your presentations. You come across as stiff and canned instead of natural and conversational, which is what you want. If you notice that you're practicing and you're saying the same things over and over the exact same way, you may accidentally be memorizing your presentation. A technique I use to illustrate how you can change up your speech patterns is take a song or a poem or a passage, something that you know by heart, and we're going to switch up the cadence and change up the words a little bit so that you're delivering it differently. The rules for this game are you've got to paraphrase, you don't want to use more than three words in a row from the original source, try to keep the endings a little different on each line, and make sure the content sounds different, but you're giving us the same message. Here's an example from a show I used to watch growing up. This is the introductory song. I was born on the western side of the city of…

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