How Ray prepares for a talk
Ray Tsang: As I said, I'm not as terrified these days, but I do have fear every time before I get on stage to speak. Speaking is just one way that I do my job and one way for me to connect with the audience, but there are many other ways to do it. I chose to do a lot more public speaking because I wanted to face my fear. I wanted to know if I could actually do it.
Constant rehearsals help. It's about just repeating what I want to say and drafting the story to make it, hopefully, a fun presentation that is also informative/useful.
I start from the beginning when rehearsing. I make sure the slides will guide me in terms of the story I want to speak about. But if I ever make a mistake somewhere during rehearsal, I will go back to the top and restart the whole thing again.
I do this until I feel comfortable with the whole talk from end to end. I also record myself, so that I can potentially hear any part of a sentence that I'm going too fast on. I usually...