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“Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert these are perceptual illusions. Sensation is an abstraction, not a replication of the real world.” Vernon Mountcastle

Quote from YouTube Video: Kavli Prize Laureate Lecture – The Restless Brain

The Professional Speaking Guide

Guide Objectives

“The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak.”
Roscoe Drummond

 

What’s this Guide is all About:
This program is designed to cover all the aspects of starting a speaking career. It provides an informative and insightful look into the professional speaking industry as well as all the information one would need to take the plunge and start speaking as a paid professional. It is your resource guide for what it looks like, what it takes, and how to get paid for speaking to the public.

This resource further contributes to and helps build and strenghten the speaking industry. By supporting, equipping and empowering individuals to make informed decisions for getting in the business, starting off right, being professional, authentic and building a rewarding career in this industry.

Paul Karasik (Seminar leader, founder of American Seminar Leaders Association) says “unlike many other professions there is no career track in the seminar business. Major universities do not yet offer programs in seminar leading.”

 

Guide Objectives & Goals:
The goals of the PSP program are to:

  1. Definition of a professional speaker.
  2. To guide an individual to becoming a paid professional speaker with the best possible understanding and direction a single program can deliver.
  3. Give a person considering this career an indepth look at what it would take mentally, emotionally and financially to build this kind of career.
  4. Answer all the basic questions someone might have regarding a being paid to speak or developing a speaking career.
  5. Instill values, integrity and originality in those considering this career or business.
  6. Equip, empower and educate potential professional speakers.
  7. Provide incredible resources throughout program for beginner through to pros, trainers, authors and want-a-be’s.
  8. Produce some of the nations finest new speakers.

 

The goals of this project are to:

  1. Document the path that individuals took in getting their speaking career going. The ups and downs, what worked well and what they would do different. (Their story and experience.)
  2. Add new research to bring fresh new material, statistics and facts to the speakers.
  3. Bring together all of the information, ideas, resources to creating the most incredible public speaking career development program available.
  4. Draw from real life experiences of professional speakers. The ups and downs, the do’s and don’ts to build a real life up to date program.
  5. Assemble all of these records, resources, experiences into a well written easy to follow and understand document that can serve us in the many ways we envision.

 

Furthering the vision:

  1. Produce a book/program that can develop profits from its sales or sale of itself to an organization like CAPS or NSA, or perhaps universities or corporations.
  2. Produce a book, program that provides additional training, teaching material that co-authors can use as keynote speeches, workshops or a print and electronic download pdf. to sell and market anyway they can benefit.
  3. Produce a potential business opportunity for the co-authors that include points 5 & 6.

 

Who Is It For:

It is for those who may be considering or have made commitment to become a paid professional speaker, either for an income supplement, complete career change or those who have information they feel they would like to present in a public setting.

Its for the many people who never considered this profession and think it may be a viable career.

The person who has written a book and wants to develop a speaking career.

The person who spent a couple years in Toastmasters and feels they could be a public speaker.

The plumber, mechanic or carpenter who mastered their trade and feels they could advance their career by speaking, training or teaching their skill.

The person who bought a bunch of properties with no money down and now wants to give seminars.

The common worker who has a passion for speaking, wants to educate people and thought of becoming a teacher. This program will show them how they can make 10 times the money and reach 10 times people on the platform.

The person who sees public speaking as a excellent quality of life and a way to make huge dollars.

For those who are hungry to hear the applause of the audience as they perform on the platform.

Science-fact-theory-hypothesis

Definitions key to discussions:

  • Fact: A fact is a statement that is true and can be proved with evidence.
  • Hypothesis: A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon that can be tested by the scientific method. A hypothesis has not been tested.
  • Theory: Scientific theories are distinguished from hypotheses, which are empirically testable conjectures, and from scientific laws, which are descriptive accounts of how nature behaves under certain conditions. Theories have been rigorously tested and widely accepted by the scientific community who agree the theory best explains the observations or phenomenon we experience.
  • Scientific Method: The scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge.
  • Empirical Evidence: Empirical evidence is the knowledge received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and experimentation.
  • Reality: Reality is the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.
  • Delusion: A delusion is a belief that is held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.
  • Insanity: Insanity, craziness, or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.