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 TED Talks has over
1,000,000,000 views

What makes some speakers more successful than others?

Here are some characteristics of what separates the good
speakers from the great.
 The exceptions to
the 12 minute rule
is if your talk is:

Your TED talk shouldn’t Jaw dropping

be less than 12 minutes.

Funny

Beautiful
The most favorited
17:58
videos average Ingenious
in length
 For people to enjoy the TED talk that fell
between 12-18 minutes long, it had to be:

Persuasive Fascinating Inspiring Informative Courageous

 If you want to compete among the most
favorite TED speakers you should:

Present a clear, Alternate between Stories

focused message and main points

Keep it short Use humor strategically

and to the point

Format your presentation Take your audience through

as a hero’s journey or a broad range of emotions.
premise-driven narrative

Do not use slides Embrace the power

of the pause
 The top 10 keywords The top 10 keywords
to USE in your TED talk to AVOID in your TED talk

You So
Happiness Oxygen
Brain Aircraft
French Project
Coffee Girls
Mirror Feet
Choice Building
Patient Problem
Data Computer
Middle Design
The most successful speakers
share these characteristics

Longer hair than average

Glasses

Dressed up more than

the average TED speaker
 The Top 8 TED Talks for Tech

John Underkoffler Pranav Mistry

1 5 Gesture-based interface that
Gesture-based computing
goes everywhere
Gary Flake
2 Extreme data visualization 6
Eric Topol
Wireless tech in medicine

Jane McGonigal Tim Berners-Lee

3 How gamers can save the world 7 Making the world’s data
open source
Stephen Wolfram
4 Ray Kurzweil
Creating a computational theory 8 Machines that think and grow
of the universe
 The Top 10 TED Talks for Business

Rory Sutherland Tim Harford

1 Life Lessons from an Ad Man
6 Trial, Error, and the God Complex

Simon Sinek Steven Johnson

2 How Great Leaders Inspire Action
7 Where Good Ideas Come From

Dan Ariely Cameron Herold

3 Are we in Control of our
8 Let's Raise Kids to be
own Decisions? Entrepreneurs

Seth Godin Dan Cobley

4 How to get your Ideas to Spread
9 What Physics Taught Me
About Marketing
Malcolm Gladwell
5 Choice, Happiness, and Jason Fried
10 Why Work Doesn't Happen
Spaghetti Sauce
at Work
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