Akash Karia - TED Talks Storytelling: 23 Storytelling Techniques from the Best TED Talks

Akash Karia

best-selling author of
How to Deliver a Great TED Talk

2013 by Akash Karia

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BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR:

How to Deliver a Great TED Talk

Storytelling Techniques for Powerful Presentations

Public Speaking Mastery

Own the Room

Public Speaking Tips from the Pros

Stop Negative Thinking!

How Successful People Think Differently

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TABLE OF CONETNS

Chapter One
THE MAGIC INGREDIENT IN DELIVERING A GREAT TED TALK

Chapter Two
THE STORY START

Chapter Three
THE SURPRISING ELEMENT THAT MAKES A STORY IRRESISTIBLE

Chapter Four
PROVIDE SENSORY DETAILS TO BREATHE LIFE INTO YOUR CHARACTERS

Chapter Five
CREATE MENTAL MOTION PICTURES FOR YOUR AUDIENCE USING ALL OF YOUR SENSES

Chapter Six
PROVIDE SPECIFIC DETAILS

Chapter Seven
THE POWER OF POSITIVE STORIES

Chapter Eight
THE SPARK, THE CHANGE AND THE TAKEAWAY

Chapter Nine
WRAP UP

CHAPTER ONE

THE MAGIC INGREDIENT IN DELIVERING A GREAT TED TALK

What is the secret to delivering a great TED talk?

What is the magic ingredient that makes a TED talk captivating?

TED talks ( www.Ted.com ) are some of the most inspiring and amazing talks youll watch. Each presentation is eighteen minutes long, meaning that speakers on the TED stage have a difficult job. They have to distill their expertise and their lifes work into only eighteen minutes. Essentially, they only have time to share one idea, which requires them to ask the question:

If I could leave my audience with only one single key takeaway message, what would it be? If my audience was to forget everything else I said, what one single idea or lesson would I want them to remember?

Not only are the ideas that are shared on the TED stage profound, the speakers themselves are some of the best presenters youll ever see. Unlike the boring, dull, lifeless corporate presentations you hear these days, TED talks are powerful and captivating. They keep you hooked onto every word. The speakers on the TED stage are confident, powerful and persuasive.

So, what is it that makes these TED talks so inspiring?

What are the secrets of delivering a powerful TED talk?

And more importantly, how can you use those secrets to make your presentations more powerful, dynamic and engaging?

To try to answer these questions, I studied over 200 of the best TED talks. I broke each TED talk down in terms of structure, message and delivery.

So, what did I discover?

What was the magic ingredient that made a TED talk captivating?

What was it that made the best TED talks inspiring - which is a word that is often associated with TED talks?

Heres what I discovered. After studying over 200 TED talks, the one commonality among all the great TED talks is that they contain stories. Essentially, the best speakers on the TED stage were the ones who had mastered the art of storytelling. They had mastered how to craft and present their stories in a way that allowed them to share their message with the world without seeming like they were lecturing their audience. Thats just one of the advantages of stories - they allow you to share your message without your audience feeling like youre preaching to them, which in turn makes it easier for them to accept your message.

In this short guide, you are going to learn how to use stories to make your presentations engaging and inspiring. Youll learn how to craft stories that keep your audience mesmerized. Youll also learn how to use stories to make your message memorable.

By the time youve finished this guide, you will have picked up twenty-three principles on how to create stories that keep your audiences hooked onto your every word. Whether you are giving a TED talk or a corporate presentation, youll be able to apply the principles used in this guide to make your next talk a roaring success.

Ready? Lets get started...

IN A NUTSHELL

• The one thing that all great TED speakers have in common is that they are master storytellers.