What's the most important thing you can do in the next 10 days to improve your speaking?

and for this

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book 3 years ago: "Outliers"

"Los que Sobresalen" [in Spanish]

What does it take to achieve World-Class? What does it take to be truly Excellent?

As a musician? As a sportsman? As a speaker?

and he looked at multiple different cases

Is it talent?

do Irish people just have this inmate knack that they can be great public speakers?

and people from Chile will never get there

the answer is "No".

What is it that leads to excellence?

in programming?

and the answer: 10,000 hours of practice.

No matter where you start from, no matter how talented a kid was in school

it's the kid that practices 8 hours a day that's now playing

as a soloist with the top orchestras of the world

Leo Messi wasn't born with a better right knee and a better left foot

than anyone else in the world.

It's what he chose to do every day after school every weekend

that means he is where he is today.

The most important Commitment you can make to yourself

…you can listen to all of this and if you don't do this it's a waste

so, as you are considering that €6,000 that you've mentally paid

and you are thinking "how do i get a Return on Investment?"

Every laptop comes with a webcam

I want each of you to decide that you're gonna spend 3 minutes

every day for the next 10 days.

You can call them workdays so you don't have to do it at the weekend.

for 3 minutes every day

Start a little program that records

and explain a product... explain your CV... explain your vision...

explain what is a good life...

One speech that i get my students in IESE to do towards the end

"A Value You Would Share with a Child as the Basis of A Good Life"

So, Day 10 that's your challenge...

3 minutes

your answer to what value

would you share with a child as the basis for a good life.

So, nothing I can do here is going to turn you into a great speaker.

No amount of watching YouTube videos of Bill Clinton is going to turn you into

Bill Clinton

No amount of reading is going to turn you into a writer

only by speaking... that you turn into a speaker

but there are people who are fifty five years old

they've been in more than 10,000 hour's worth of meetings

and they're crap at meetings

the 23-year-old who started yesterday

is better at making meetings run effectively

so it's not just about 10,000 hours...

it's about deciding that it's important deciding you can get better

and the video allows you the feedback that you can watch and see

Here, there was...

a pottery class in the United States

Ceramics. Making pots.

and the teacher took half of the class

and she said at the end of this term

your grade will be given on the weight of pots that you create

here is a weighing scales

at the end of the class

whoever's total production of pots weighs the most

will get the highest grade

to the other half of the class

she said you'll be evaluated on your one most finished piece of pottery

the group that were told "sheer weight"

what was their way of carrying on everyday they produced 5,6,7 pots

they tried random experiments

they tried weird things they try different ideas

but their hands were on clay from the first moment

the group that we're told that they would be evaluated on the most finished pot

they read...

they thought... they talked about concepts they talked about philosophical ideas

they read more...

then went to galleries to look at other people's pots

and the first time they touched clay

was about 3 days before the end of the class

all of the best pots

were made by the group

that focused on weight.

So, your way of being in the pottery group that was measured on weight is get

the webcam going every day

if you do it for 10 days you'll get a lot better

if you keep it going...

3 minutes doesn't get you a very quickly to 10,000 hours

10,000 hours... 8 hours a day is 5 years

4 hours a day 10 years 2 hours a day 20 years

but... we will all still be alive 20 years from now

even 30 years from now

Imagine.

if you set a target of really practicing trying… trial…

and the greatest musicians when you listen to them practice: it's horrible

when I play piano I play the pieces I know

the greatest musicians when they're practicing are trying things they don't

already know. They are trying experiments, they are trying random things

So with the webcam don't just give your perfect speech, try random things

because no one else has to see it. It can be deleted rather quickly

but just be careful that no one gets to your PC while you've got all the silly ones

left on the desktop

so the first

Answer is...

This is a waste of time if you don't decide to dedicate 3 minutes

for the next 10 days

To put into practice, to experiment with some of the ideas