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Do you remember, some of you have been watching me for a while, I once told you that if you take the Dale Carnegie course, one of the things that it teaches you is really, really valuable for some situations. One of those situations is happening right now. And let me tell you a little bit of a story before I get into that.
Yeah. Um, years ago I was doing a book tour, going around the country signing books for whatever book was out. And I got to a Denver bookstore, one of the biggest ones in, I don't know, the country or Denver. Just some massive bookstore that had a room with a stadium audience and everything. I mean, it was just a big bookstore.
And I get there and the owner of the bookstore greets me and says, all right, people have been waiting for two hours to see you. And I said, ah, that's great. And I thought they meant to sign books. And they said, yeah, they can't wait to hear your speech. And I said, what? Yeah, your speech that you're going to give in 10 minutes. They're really excited about it.
And I said, huh? I didn't know I was giving a speech in 10 minutes. No idea. I thought I was just there to sign books. But apparently the audience had already assembled. So there were, I don't know, several hundred people in the room waiting to hear my speech, which didn't exist.
So my point is, if you take the Dale Carnegie course, they actually teach you how to be prepared to always have a speech so you can walk
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into these situations as I did. I just gave a speech because you just always have one. Now it's usually pieces of speeches, right? So you have these little components that if you get in one of these situations, you can just take them off the shelf. You say, okay, I'll take one of these, one of these, one of these, and I'll just put them together on the fly, which is what I just did. So that story…
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