• TED Talks Storytelling

  • 23 Storytelling Techniques from the Best TED Talks
  • By: Akash Karia
  • Narrated by: Matt Stone
  • Length: 54 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (715 ratings)

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TED Talks Storytelling

By: Akash Karia
Narrated by: Matt Stone
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Publisher's summary

Master the one thing all great TED talks have in common!

What is the secret to delivering a great TED talk?

What is the magic ingredient that makes a TED talk captivating?

And more importantly, how can you use those secrets to make your presentations more powerful, dynamic, and engaging?

To try to answer these questions, I studied over 200 of the best TED talks. I broke each TED talk down in terms of structure, message, and delivery. Here's what I discovered: After studying over 200 TED talks, the one commonality among all the great TED talks is that they contain stories. Utilize advanced storytelling techniques to inject life into your presentations!

Essentially, the best speakers on the TED stage were the ones who had mastered the art of storytelling. They had mastered how to craft and present their stories in a way that allowed them to share their message with the world without seeming like they were lecturing their audience.

Discover the 23 storytelling secrets of the best TED talks! In this short, but powerful, guide you're going to learn how to use stories to make your presentations engaging and entertaining. Using case studies drawn from TED talks by Sir Ken Robinson, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Susan Cain, Leslie Morgan Steiner, Mike Rowe, and Malcom Gladwell, you'll learn how to craft stories that keep your audience mesmerized.

©2015 Akash Karia (P)2015 Akash Karia

Critic reviews

"Every speaker can put these ideas into practice immediately - and they should!" (Dr. Richard C. Harris, certified speaking coach)
"Superb communication advice" (Larry Nocella, author of The Katrina Contract: A Novel)

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Succinct and useful!

A quick and helpful read! It provides the right amount of information to get started on honing your presentation skills, with easy to recall pointers to further learning resources. Excellent narration by Matt Stone - a very worthwhile read!

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Short and straight to the point great tips

As I Ted Talks fan, I've listened to so many great talks, and over the years I've pin pointed couple of techniques people used to give compelling talks with. This book not only spoke out my mind, but also listed couple more techniques which are very handy.

The book is short and straight to the point; I liked it.

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It's a sales pitch for Akash Karia

This sounds more like a commercial for AkashKaria.com than story telling techniques. I enjoyed the speaker though.

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Excellent!

Organized content. Easy to understand concepts. Clear points easy to remember. what I needed to know to develop my speeches-- Thank you!

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Good info, bad example

I really enjoyed the tips in this book, but I had a very negative reaction to the way the author used the story of Leslie Morgan Steiner’s domestic violence TedTalk. He used it to illustrate his points about a “good story,” but it came across as condescending and belittling of her experience. I finished the book with a very bad impression of the author. Also, this is the only audible book I have ever read where the author self-promotes throughout the book and at the end. Maybe that is common? But that left me less interested in any future works by this author.

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Simply amazing!

Illustrates the power of simplicity! Easy to undersrand and immediately applicable. This one will leave you no excuses to improve your public speaking skills.

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doesnt let down

short and sweet. to the point. crisp. theres a rush to complete at times u hv to count whether call covered and it does.

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Not what I expected

This was definitely not what I was expecting when purchased but it wasn't too bad. First point is that the continued to promote himself and his website. In spite of this fact or maybe because of this I found the information easy to understand and useful if not original

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Short, sweet, to the point...

Under-an-hour listen that I sometimes felt I'd heard before, because the examples used were from many of my favorite TED Talks. Thank you.

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basics

goes over the basics..no depth..
can't complain for the price..
will look for other books for practicing story telling

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