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JERRY SEINFELD just gave a 1,000 second commencement address at Duke that many of those students will NEVER FORGET.Over the last 3 days comments about the speech have ranged from “The Warren Buffett of stand-up comedy” and “The best commencement speech I've ever heard!!” To “Awesome. Brilliant. Insightful. Wise. Genius. We need more speeches like this.”With no autocue, no looking down to check his notes and no awkward poses, Jerry spoke from the heart with the same rhythm and cadence that he is known for in his standup routines. But this wasn’t the small downstairs room of the Gotham Comedy Club speaking to a few hundreds folks. This was a few thousand.It was a masterclass in how to deliver an inspirational talk.💙 At 2,607 words long Jerry spoke at a respectable 156 words per minute but what was most (technically) impressive, is that this speech has the LOWEST READABILITY SCORE I’VE EVER SEEN. 💙6.77 on the Gunning Fog Index or 4.9 on Flesch Kincaid grade level. That’s a 5th grade (age 7-11) reading level! I showed it to my 7-year old twins and it kept their attention.This is a big deal for business leaders because most presentations score really highly (15+) and then they wonder why their audience didn't get it. Only a rare few write their script longhand so that they can measure the readability of it - and then gauge how their audience is likely to receive it.His script was written in the style of a song or a Psalm and not a speech. Just like Winston Churchill used to. That’s why it flows so well. Read the transcript on YouTube and you’ll see what I mean. A quick look at the science behind a speech like this reveals what makes it SO good:• 274 sentences• Av 1.42 syllables per word• 9.51 words per sentence.• Lexical Density: 44.113️⃣ Jerry Broke speech into 3 sections: 1. Bust your ass. 2. Pay attention. 3. Fall in love. He used a simple format that all great speakers use: Tell them what you’re about to tell them; tell them; tell them what you just told them. He addressed an elephant in the room that few commencement speakers dare mention: “Thank you for the phony degree... it's pretty much as useful in real life as this outfit I'm wearing.” He even had a dig at AI “making fake brains is risky” and suggested “the ad campaign for ChatGPT should be the opposite of Nike. You just can't do it!” 😂⬇️This impressive speech had tons of advice about work for leaders at any stage of their career:🤩 The goal is not to make as much money as you can. The goal should be to have the COOLEST JOB.🤣 Humour is the most powerful, most survival, essential quality you will ever have or need to navigate through the human experience.😳 We’re embarrassed about things we should BE PROUD of and proud of things we should be embarrassed about.💙 Don’t think about having, think about becoming.🔬 FASCINATION is way better than PASSION. Find something where you love the good parts and don't mind the bad parts too much. 👏🏻
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Jeremy Connell-Waite
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So let's see what happens when you train a large language model like Llama-3 to help you craft a keynote in the style of Jerry Seinfeld's Duke commencement address. Thanks for the idea JULIE RINARD - this is going to be fun....
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Jeremy Connell-Waite
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I’m getting a few DM’s on whether he had an autocue or not. Looks like he did. But did he use it? I’m not so sure…This is only a 16 minute 40 talk for a guy who gets paid to remember 75 minutes of content when he is doing his live gigs - on stage - without notes or a prompter. (That’s 11,775 words since he speaks at around 157wpm).He’s brilliant because he rehearses his content to death. (Another great lesson for any presenters out there in the business world wanting to make an impact).As they say, “You don’t practice until you get it right, you practice until you can NEVER get it wrong.”
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FULL SPEECH (with transcript) >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76QV2SrSqgo
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Karren Hazledine
Violence survivor | whistleblower | fighting for victims justice | innovator | pro human rights | soon to be author | dreamer| student |
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Can I add…. Fascination creates passion. They go together.. just like Gina Roger’s and Fred Astaire…. And as they said. Gina did everything fred did, but backwards and in heels. In business as women we do more then many men. Less money despite the extra expense of stockings, makeup, our clothing is more expensive, our hair needs are more expensive and then their is the predatory behaviours we have to manouvre. We go home and we sigh, pause for a few minutes take a deep breathe and walk inside our homes, we cook dinner whilst reading that contract, organise the lunch box, read and hear our children read. We lovingly kiss them good night. Back to that contract. At 1am we full asleep reading for another day of “having it all”. Yay. Australian women welcome to slavery. Our taxes funded the growth of our biggest industry! An industry who failed to deliver
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Sawak Talati
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Did he deliberately skip talking about the importance of moral values and ethics in the real world?
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Linda Groendyke
Crafting creative online strategies using web analytics, SEO, user experience and amazing content to grow your business
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I once had a horrible job for a small newspaper where people illegally smoked in the office (and one of them was pregnant) and the owner was a drunk. Sometimes, there are things you don't know about companies until you get to your desk. I spent a few weeks trying to make it work, but one day left for lunch and never came back. Until I heard that scenario just now, it was something only my family members knew about. Looking back, I still feel a little bad, but I did punch out for lunch.
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Jacqueline (Jaci) Burns
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I'm still recovering from the line, "I'm 70!"!
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Nicole Yershon
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I love this post Jeremy Connell-Waite because it was all about the ‘speech’ NOT click bait about how he was booed off stage because of the religion he was born into - as he so eloquently said ‘life is messy, it doesn’t make sense, so don’t ever lose your sense of humour’ - thank you for sharing 🙏
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