How to Memorize a Speech

How do you memorize a speech? Don't! Memorizing a speech is nearly impossible and never works out well. So, what can you do instead of memorizing a speech?

I sucked at memorizing. Here is what I did to "internalize" my World Championship speech.

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Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking, 2001 Winner, Darren LaCroix. 2001 was considered by many one of the most competitive years of the speech contest. This is becomes even more interesting when you know his story of how he bombed miserably in a Boston comedy club just nine years prior. He was the least likely to be on stage making people laugh. No one ever told him, “You are funny. You should be a comedian.”

Darren’s World Championship speech is one the funniest, most talked about speeches in the history of the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking Since 1938. This World Championship Speech, "OUCH!" is also one of the most widely studied by speech contestants. Watch for yourself and see!

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[jyotsna]

"Don't memorize, internalize" -- wow, makes so much sense. Glad to find this video as I was painfully memorizing my presentation word by word.

Also important to be present and not be in our head trying to recall next word to say.

thank you for sharing your wisdom!!!!

[danielsoke]

Best video ever for a person who wants to master public speaking. Thank you for your advice

[EPavlina]

Great info, makes a lot of sense. Thank you for sharing that and giving us examples from your actual speech.

[StanleyReynolds]

Excellent teaching. Great idea using stage location for memory triggers.

[allthingsunrelated]

Thank you, these are really great techniques. I write out my briefs and I never hit it perfectly and I forget half of it because I don’t internalize it. Thanks again, I’ll work on this technique.

[tejaK]

So precious, thank you very much, Darren. 💙🙏❤️

[sophianing]

Super good method, will use it right away, thank you so much