Takeaways of Ted talk video – How to speak so that people want to listen.

Human voice is very powerful, we can express our feelings or even start a war with it. Here are some tips about how to speak powerfully.

There are seven sins in speaking: gossip, judging, negativity, complaining, excuses, lying and dogmatism.

The tricks of speaking powerful can be noted as ‘HAIL’, where H means honesty, A means authenticity, I means integrity and L means love.

There are many ways of speaking and here are some examples:

Register, lower register or lower voice always associate with power.

Timber, you can train your timber with a voice coach.

Prosody, it can impart meaning to our speech.

Pace, quickly or slow or even a silence. Silence can be very powerful.

Pitch, give the same sentence with different meanings.

Volume, we let people really pay attention to ourselves by speaking in a lower volume.

We should also warm up our voice just like when we want to use an engine. People could do vocal warm-up exercises to improve their speaking ability.

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