Filipino Motivational Speaker

@Jepoy: I think the topic of the post is “chest-pounding speakers but have no real life-changing experience”.

Now, let us talk about that.

I think that chest-pounding is not really a problem. That is true for any profession and any race, not just for Filipinos. Chest-pounding is not really bad. Gorillas do it too. And yes, soccer superstars. And basketball players too. I think the gesture is not the issue.

As to “no life-changing experience”. I believe everyone has faced struggles in life. The smallness or bigness of the problem depends on the person. The real job of the motivational speaker is not to tell his sad stories, although sad stories add emotional impact to the message, but to show how his stories are related to the problems of his audience. After that he must be able to show his audience how to he solved the problem and how the audience may do the same. Ultimately, he must challenged them to move.

The focal point of motivational speaking is not the speaker nor the message. The audience is. The speaker and his stories are just a metaphor, a tool for the audience to see himself and the situation he is in.

One does not have to suffer to be motivational. He does not have to meet an accident that is life altering to be motivational. For me, the mere fact that the person is motivated to help other people is by itself a life-changing experience and motivational.

Emerson said, to speak is to compel, it is to bring people out of their bad sense to your good sense. I believe bringing people to your good sense is the real essence of motivation, not life changing experience. Life changing experience happens every day, but your good sense, ah, that is very rare.

Do you want to motivate people? Find your audience. Bring to them your good sense.

Jef Menguin

http://jefmenguin.com