How to Stop Saying “Um” and “Ah” - Public Speaking Video Lecture - Public

so how do you get rid of the UM Zand Oz
from your speech this is something a lot
of people really worry about first of
all you got to realize everybody says on
occasionally it's no big deal I can
think of three people who say on all the
time more often than you do David
Letterman Martha Stewart Bill O'Reilly
what do they all have in common they
make tens of millions of dollars a year
speaking so maybe we shouldn't be so
worried about the arms and oz and
instead should focus on actually saying
something interesting now all things
being equal the fewer arms and AHS the
better because if I'm every other um
word you're I'm saying is um people will
start counting the arms and not focusing
on what you're actually saying now I
have a technique I use with CEOs
presidents of countries Prime Minister's
all over the world it's amazingly
effective if you say um too often or uh
too often simply type up the word um
small font put a red circle around it
and a slash the International no sign no
left hand turn no parking all of a
sudden no uh no uh here's what I do I
cut that out and I tape that to the
twelve on someone's watch or just put it
right on their cell phone whatever it is
you look at numerous times a day so
here's what happens after a day you're
going to be looking at your watch or
your cell phone dozens of times a day
you do that every day so after a day
when you say uh or um you're all of a
sudden aware of it you have this sort of
bow Homer Simpson moment when you are
aware of saying ah or um or now after
two or three days your mouth and lips
and tongue almost send out that the
image comes up but it still comes out
you still say the or
but after a week the image will come up
now you can simply pause instead of the
are um coming out your pausing you're
aware of it now you'll come across more
confident more comfortable more relaxed