Yasir Khan
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254 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4 Mar
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Emotion creates devotion. And it's hard to relay emotion with tips and tricks. When was the last time you gave your teacher a standing ovation?
Unless they share a story. Never, right? They're giving you tips and tricks, very helpful, but you won't give them a standing ovation. But when someone sings a song with their heart, when someone delivers a performance, hell, I've been in cinemas where a movie ended. There's no one there. People will stand up and clap. Why? Because it's the emotion that creates the devotion.
I was speaking with a coach and I used to listen to his speech and I said, listen, you always get a standing ovation at the end. I'm doing all these workshops and public speaking. I'm so valuable. How come I don't get it? He said, because people don't feel anything. And storytelling, that's what makes people feel something. So try ending with a story. I ended with a story and guess what?
Standing ovation.
I love that. I love that. So, okay, this is going to be a really weird example. I'm going to tell you a really quick story, okay? I spent a month and a half preparing the perfect intro for a keynote I had coming up. Intro. Yeah, just the first sentence of it, okay? And the first sentence was going to be, I have a confession to make.
You might have heard that I've got all these followers, but there was a time that I wasn't very confident. And I was going to go into my speech about my journey, right? And it's going to start on a very somber note. And the night before my keynote, I'm having a dinner with the team, and they noticed that I'm not drinking. I don't drink. They said, okay, hey, Yasir, you don't drink? I said, no.
They said, oh, I also noticed you didn't drink any coffee in the morning. How come you don't drink coffee? I said, oh, it was because it dehydrated me. And then he said, so what? And I was thinking, okay, how do I explain to them? How do I say this? So here's the thing. I make money with my mouth. So it dehydrates me. But before I could say the dehydration part, everyone started laughing.
And then I realized what I had just said. And they said, that's what you should open your keynote with. I said, are you out of your mind? And they're like, no, no, no. Open with that. So now I've spent a month and a half on that perfect line. And the next day I said, okay, let me try it. And I tried it and it killed. It completely killed. Amazing.
So that was a story of just in the moment how I came up with it because of what happened there. And that was a story, right? It was a quick little anecdote that I pulled into the speech. So every single day, like you're saying, you're going to have experiences that give you a story. Lord, the bar what a story is. Yesterday, I was in line for 15 minutes for some new coffee shop that opened up.
That was terrible. And I'm thinking, what's the message? Life's too short to wait. That's the message. You can just practice that with everything every day.
Sure. And by the way, this is not my formula. I learned it from Stanford. Oh, okay.
It's point, reason, example, point. And it's mainly for, let's say you've got an impromptu speech or you want to say something and make sense of it. You give a point of something, you provide an example of it, reason, an example, and then a point. I do PRP or PSP, point, reason, point, point, story point, just because I find that I naturally infuse an example in there.
So why don't you give me a random question, and I'm going to give you a terrible answer, and then we'll try to implement it in there.
Oh man, there's so many reasons I became a public speaker. You know, I always wanted to share my message and there's so many things I'm interested in, like public speaking confidence and reading books and mindfulness. I wanted to share that with people. And yeah, you know, it's always been like a goal of mine. And yeah, that's why I'm a public speaker.
All over the place. Have you heard an answer like that before?
Nine times out of 10, right? Now what I'm going to do, I'm going to say the exact same thing. I'm just going to structure it differently. I'm going to pick one specific reason, and I'm going to go into that, okay? So ask me that question again.
I became a public speaker to show other people how important their voice is. When I grew up, I didn't speak for 20 years because there was a little girl who made fun of my teeth and I was embarrassed to open my mouth. But when I started practicing public speaking, I realized how many more people were being affected with the words that were coming out of my mouth.
So now it was my responsibility to open my mouth. And I want to show other people through my public speaking that their voice matters as well. That's why I got into public speaking.
Exactly. If you just script three questions one time in your life, it will make you successful in every single network. Just what do you do? Why are you here? Tell me about yourself. That's it. Just script them one time and you will be good for life. But you'll be shocked how many times like, so what brought you here? Oh, you know, my wife dragged me down here. I'm like, oh my God, why me?
And then you have to just move on to the next person. And I've been to conferences where people were representing their company, Hala. I said, hey, what are you finding interesting about the event so far? Oh, I guess it's all right. You know, I'm just here for a couple of hours. Why are you here?
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