Experience-driven, practical, to the point – The Seven Minute Star is your entertaining guide to becoming a great speaker! Whatever your profession may be, these 15 steps will propel you up the stairs where you'll find your seven minutes of glory – on stage: You will release your hand brake. You will be as translucent as ice-cold water. You will surprise your audience. You will look deeply into their eyes. You will set your voice free. You will make your body talk. You will explore the power of 3D. You will learn how to create any speech in just ten minutes. You will arm yourself with rhetorical weapons. You will tell your own stories. You will borrow credibility without being a thief. You will make your audience laugh. You will be more enthusiastic than Michael Jordan. You will engage your audience and express yourself with passion. And, most importantly, you will rediscover your smile!
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Florian Mueck. THE SEVEN MINUTE STAR
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THE CATS MEOW
THANK YOU, RALPH!
FIFTEEN SIMPLE STEPS
STEP ONE. The Cat And The Dogs
STEP TWO. Diving Into Ice-Cold Water
STEP THREE. 30 Seconds
STEP FOUR. Here’s Looking At You, Kid
STEP FIVE. The Conqueror Of Fatigue
STEP SIX. Mirror, Mirror On The Wall
STEP SEVEN. They Are Everywhere
STEP EIGHT. No Parthenon
STEP NINE. Cicero, Demosthenes, & Co
STEP TEN. Whiskeymill
STEP ELEVEN. Mark Twain
STEP TWELVE. Bob Hope Knew It
STEP THIRTEEN. 2 Michaels, 1 Ali
STEP FOURTEEN. It’s All About Love
STEP FIFTEEN. Eid, Hanukkah, Christmas
GREAT, BUT WHAT ABOUT AUTHENTICITY?
APPENDIX THE SPEECH DEVELOPMENT TEMPLATE CREATE YOUR SPEECH IN JUST 5 MINUTES!
ABOUT THE WRITER
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Writing the first book is an incredibly enriching experience and a great opportunity for self reflection. I would like to send out some special thank-yous to the following people who helped me bring The Seven Minute Star to life:
Now it’s fifteen years later, and I speak at weddings, at parties, at business meetings. I write songs and perform them. I have created my own public speaking seminar that’s both educational and entertaining. And my role as primus inter pares of The Festival, a European movement of which I am the initiator and co-founder, often requires that I give informative and inspiring speeches to a wide variety of people, and to different audiences all the time. And I love it! I constantly look for new opportunities to be a star - The Seven Minute Star.
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The river of my life has flowed unbroken, from the time I played the clarinet, past my time at the university, all the way through to today. Sometimes it’s been torrential, other times calm, sometimes threatening to overflow its banks, sometimes nearly dried up. This river of time is really experience. And if you want to move beyond your fear and gain confidence, then you must jump right in. Practice, practice, practice! Whenever you can, whenever you have the chance, just speak right up and say: “Here I am! I will speak. Let me speak — NOW!”
Go ahead and sing in dark, shady karaoke bars — and do the best possible thing for yourself: join a nearby chapter of Toastmasters!
