Learn English with Kobe Bryant. Kobe changed the game during his legendary NBA career. He shared with the TEDxShanghai audience and viewers his personal work ethics and philosophy derived from his 20 years in the game. A 5-time NBA champion, Bryant entered the National Basketball Association directly from high school, and played his entire 20-season professional career in the league with the Los Angeles Lakers. Unfortunately, Bryant died at age 41 along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California. In this Speech, he also quotes: “I’ve done everything I could to be the best basketball player I could be; you can’t leave any stone unturned.” – Watch with big English subtitles.
Tag: TEDx Talks
Ideas worth spreading
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Vocabulary to learn after watching the video :
- What is TED for those of our viewers who may have been living under a rock
- TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design
- In 1984 a group of professionals in those three areas got together and thought it would be a good idea to create a conference
- Ideas could be shared about these subjects
- People could become inspired
- Ideas could be spread
- That’s where TED talks were born
- The x in TEDx stands for an independently organized event
- It’s a completely different group of people, it could be a church, it could be a school, a business
- They have received a license from TED to conduct TED like events
- These events feature talks and performances
- I have three loves
- The first one is Science, I’m a conservation biologist
- The second one is public speaking, I’m a toastmaster and I compete a lot in public events
- The third one is performance, performing arts I’m a dancer and I do a lot of theatre
- I merged these three loves
- I was coaching my colleagues, my scientific peers
- They don’t have a good reputation for being able to speak well
- I was helping them to create effective messages
- This caught the attention of a few people who were organizing a TEDx event
- I happily signed on
- TEDx talks are a potent cocktail of all sorts of public speaking and rhetorical ingredients
- You’ve got a formula or a structure which starts normally with a very provocative beginning
- This catches the hook for the audience
- Story telling techniques
- Anecdotes
- Vocal variety and body language
- Telling a story something interesting something empowering or passionate
- It ends with an action, the audience can be inspired to think or do or say
- My job as a speaker coach is to bring out these elements in the speaker
- A good talk has been rehearsed about 100 times
- There’s hundreds of hours of practice
- Detailed choreography
- Talking slowly, quickly
- It is a mixture of work, an idea worth spreading
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