Ep#880: Public Speaking Talent vs Public Speaking Training

welcome to another episode of i love public speaking this is bishal sarkar and today i'd like to share with you um something that i realized back in 2011 which is talent is something that will take you high but training is something that will take you higher what do i mean by that see a lot of times people focus too much on talent um okay he's a talented artist she's a talented singer He's a talented communicator.

But what I figured out, especially about communication and public speaking, is talent is not a bad thing.

If somebody has the talent from their childhood days, they have got exposure to public speaking, communication, leadership, whatever.

That's a good thing.

But talent will only take you...

To a certain distance.

But after that what is important is your training.

Training means who you are getting trained by.

Are you getting coaching? How are you improving with your skills? I have seen numerous examples in my life.

Numerous means I am talking about thousands of examples.

Who... were good communicators because of their exposure to different businesses, jobs that they had, different roles that they played in life.

So they were actually good communicators.

But that also got to their head, got to their ego.

Oh, I already know how to speak well.

Oh, I already know about voice.

And that talent that got developed a bit, Without training, got round to zero.

I am thinking of a specific person in my mind right now as I speak.

He was a good speaker.

He has worked for McKinsey because of the exposure to the consulting role that he had.

By default, what happened for him is that he started speaking to diverse audiences, different kind of people.

He started speaking well.

And then that got to his head.

That kind of like unconscious talent got to his head.

And he started thinking, oh, yeah, nothing can beat me right now.

I'm just, I'm this, I'm that.