860: The Science of Compelling Body Language with Richard Newman
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
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How to Be a Great Motivational Speaker
People repeatedly say it's fast, choppy gestures. It's a high intensity in your arms and you can be going palms up or palms down but they need to be congruent. Then you need to match that with a faster than usual pace of voice. So if you think about this, the average pace of voice is about 140 words per minute. If you speed it up and you go somewhere around 180 words per minute or higher, then suddenly you're in that motivator zone. Tony Robbins has the average of around 240 words per minute when he's being motivational in his talks. That sounds really engaging equally. Other things that you need to think about doing is to use words that
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