From the course: Communicating with Charisma
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Use charismatic gestures
- Do you talk with your hands? Well, you should. Your hand gestures are a great way to be more charismatic. In my human behavior research lab Science of People, we love to solve puzzles. One puzzle I was always curious about was why some TED Talks go viral, and others don't, so we decided to embark on a large research experiment, where we analyzed hundreds of hours of TED Talks, looking for differences between the most popular TED Talks, and the least popular TED Talks. And we discovered a fascinating finding that was so interesting it even got me my own TED Talk. What was it? Hand gestures. We counted every single hand gesture in TED Talks, and found that the most popular TED talkers by view count used an average of 465 hand gestures, while the least popular TED talkers used an average of 272. What was happening here? I realized that the most popular TED Talks all start the same way. See if this looks familiar.…
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