What makes a great talk, great: Chris Anderson at TEDGlobal 2013

In this discussion with TEDx Organizers, TED Curator Chris Anderson reflects on the essential qualities of the best TED Talks.

TEDx is an international community that organizes TED-style events anywhere and everywhere -- celebrating locally-driven ideas and elevating them to a global stage.

[professorcrap.]

im 2 minutes in and this man has told me that people talk to each other to convey ideas.

[pranjalpatil]

I'm in the process of curating speakers for my tedx and this is the absolute talk i needed to hear! Thank you Chris!

[GiselaGiardino]

100% insight on communication in general, beyond a TED Talk. Impeccable. Thanks Chris.

[BrandonAvance]

Great talk Chris. Sharing this with my team, team members. My favorite part was this quote, "Above all else, there is no formula. We want you to do it the way that you do it best. And through that message, peoples lives will be changed forever." - Chris Anderson

[tomaszazach]

I am completely agree with Chris on the fact that BY doing simple things that come naturally for us without making effort those are our passion and keep on doing this we find our missioni in our life..original and authentic
that s all we NEED to be
which IS what we really are.
NOTHING MORE
AND NOTHING LESS👍🙂🎼

[sarahabell]

Thank you Chris - a really helpful talk. I love that you mentioned authenticity and vulnerability. I recently gave a TEDx talk in Bristol on our failure to relate authentically. I took a deliberate risk of nearly alienating the audience in the first minute but my point was to show how we feel when someone talks at us from ego. I then started my intro again and swapped to vulnerability. You could feel the room re-connect - it was fascinating and evidence of my point which was that if we want to be authentic we have to value connection over protection. Thank you Chris for creating a platform where these ideas can be shared and for also sharing yourself. Keep up the wonderful work....(and your team).

[AravindanUmashankar]

Immensely important lessons on connecting authentically with the audience. Chris and Team are doing an awesome job of bringing great ideas to broadcast on a global scale. Keep on with the wonderful work. More power to u folks !

[JohnBatesnow]

Way to go, Chris. I think it's great that you took the risk of standing on the TED stage yourself! I appreciate your perspective on it and I love that you shared this with us. Good work.

[ShavaunMincey]

I give a lot of talks... Super helpful and practical!

[samarasaratnam]

A great talk. Amazing elements to glean.

[agateno]

Enlightening.

Adding TIME as perspective: What fashions does a great TED talk follow? My assumption: What was in vogue several years ago does not necessarily work any longer (and maybe vice versa). Many success factors of previous talks become poor when copied too often.

Another question: What community "culture" does the TED audience have when it comes to shared expectations? And would a great TED talk be "great" on other occasions? - Is it the blueprint for any other talk / presentation?

[TheBitspirits]

in general this is great advice for any kind of talk...

[georgecherian]

We have to change the talk according to the audience you are facing.

[NancyEkpezu]

A new world view can make people think and act differently.

[arielgrushka]

I'm dying with the comments here 🤣

[Beloshytskiy]

Please, make it available on Amara. I want to translate this video into Russian.

[Paolo-qelc]

I love the people who judge Chris. He is talking on TED with geniuses. You guys wouldn't speak at a family dinner party!

[ellenrohr]

So good.  Human to human.  Lovely.  Thank you!  xo$

[carstenvlaspoel]

Very informing I don't know how to put it but it helped me in my me CQ us it thinking and advancing in bringing out the kind iif information stream to get the messages to the right platform so they find that inner information connection or sometimes reconnection because not all brain parts have the compute power to equalize the packages. Thanks. ;))]

[patrickspens]

I'm here because the brilliant futurist Sam Hyde told me to look this up