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How to Deliver a TED Talk: Secrets of the World's Most Inspiring Presentations, revised and expanded new edition, with a foreword by Richard St. John
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How to Deliver a TED Talk: Secrets of the World's Most Inspiring Presentations, revised and expanded new edition, with a foreword by Richard St. John

by Jeremey Donovan
November 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
208 pages
5h
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from How to Deliver a TED Talk: Secrets of the World's Most Inspiring Presentations, revised and expanded new edition, with a foreword by Richard St. John

CHAPTER 6

Transitioning Between Parts of Your Talk

TIP 45: Explicitly review the key point from your prior section and subtly preview the theme of your next section in your transition.

Imagine that you were to perfectly engineer a child from conception into an important novelist. You would start by joining two intellectuals, perhaps affiliated with a major university, in marriage. Then, if you got lucky, their offspring would start reading at a mere two years old. You would nourish her with the canon of Western literature from Shakespeare to Locke to Hemingway. Perhaps by age seven, she would start writing by building on the plots, settings, and characters of the stories she had fallen in love reading.

As she revealed in her TEDGlobal 2009 talk, ...

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