Neil Pasricha gets it — public speaking can be terrifying. The bestselling author and one of the most popular TED speakers in the world gives about 50 speeches a year, and yet he still found his stomach churning at the thought of giving a new speech at the recent SXSW conference.
He was booked to talk about building trust in distrustful times alongside PostSecret founder Frank Warren. In the weeks leading up to the event, Neil spent countless hours writing his speech, editing it and then editing it again, creating slides, editing those slides, and then practicing it in front of his family, friends, and even the guy sitting next to him on the plane to the event. Read more here…
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