Dananjaya Hettiarachchi World Champion of Public Speaking 2014 - Full Speech Video Lecture | Understanding the art of Public Speaking: Become a better speaker - Self Help Learning

dennah Jaya heavier achi I see something
I see something dhananjaya heavier
ah-choo
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you and I are not very different from
this flower just like this flower is
unique you are unique all of us has
something special that makes us as
beautiful do you know what makes you
special now the answer to that can be a
little difficult to find because
sometimes life has a cruel way picking
out your petals breaking you into and
throwing you into the trash and when
you're broken it's very difficult to
feel special
mr. Carter sir my fellow flowers I can
remember the first time I broke I was 17
years old I had already flunked high
school and managed to get myself
arrested now I wasn't afraid of the cops
but there was one person I was very
afraid of and that was my mama raise
your hand if you have an emotional model
let me see put them all together you get
mama
I can hear her scream outside the police
station even the cops were afraid she
came up to me held the iron bars looked
into my eyes and I saw a kid coming down
her face now I've seen my mama cry
before but mothers cry three types of
tears tears of joy tears of sorrow and
tears of shame and when a son sees a
mother crying tears of shame that's a
life-changing moment she looked at me
and said son I want you to be a better
man that night when I drove home my dad
was waiting for me at home now my dad is
a cool day raise your hand if you have a
cool day put them all together you get
my dad my dad came up to me and said son
it's okay you flunked your exams
you already got arrested that's fine you
get that from your mother sad
I want you to start working immediately
and I said okay so my dad took me to
meet one of his friends called Sam
now Sam was an accountant who had an
accounting firm and had generously
decided to make me his personal
assistant and there he was he looked
like a teddy bear but this man was
special I looked at him and he looked at
me and then he said the most amazing
thing he said son I see something in you
but I don't know what it is if you
decide to work with me I can help him
find that something and I was like whoa
that's the first time in my whole life
somebody has ever thought disease I'm
the inlet and I started working for Sam
and every day after work he used to tell
me stories about the world about history
about culture about philosophy and it
was much more interesting than what I
learned in school and I discovered I can
dream and I started dream ladies and
gentlemen after one year I went back
into high school completed my exam and
went in the car after successfully
completing college I found a great girl
but not a job
I didn't know what I wanted to do with
my life have you ever had that problem
and when you lost it's difficult to feel
special so I went back to my cool dad
and I said dad I feel lost he said you
are like your mother so my dad
introduced me to this strange club that
had a strange name with strange people
talking on the first meeting they told
me to do something call it table top I
asked it but while I was speaking I see
a strange man seated in the back row
humble simple the unfailing quality of
kindness in his eyes as soon as I
finished he walked up to me look me dead
straight in the eye and say son I see
something in but I don't know what it is
if you come here twice a month maybe we
can find that something and ladies and
gentlemen I discovered I could speak and
I loved speaking and that led me to
become a teacher I know what it's like
to not have enough money in your bank
account I know what it's like to worry
when the bills start coming in and
sometimes in the middle of the night I
wake up my beautiful wife and I ask her
honey why did you marry me she says I
saw something in
but I still don't know what it is ladies
and gentleman today I'm a dream I am a
speaker and I learned the unfailing
quality of unconditional love from my
wife I was broken and I've been broken
lost and broke many times in my life but
the people in my life were able to reach
into the trashcan and make me whole
again if it was up to me I would have
never been able to do that and this is
why if you have great people in your
life no matter how broke how loss or how
broken you become they can piece you
back together ladies and gentlemen when
I look at you I see something else but I
don't know what
you