Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson

"TED curator who treats a talk as a gift"

Chris Anderson is the British-American curator of TED. He took the conference over in 2001 after building Future Publishing and IGN, and coaches speakers on talks a room can rebuild. Not the Wired editor who wrote The Long Tail.

1 book·Presentation literacy and idea-spreading
Chris Anderson

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A talk is a gift

They must be able to rebuild the idea in their own heads.

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"Your number-one mission as a speaker is to take something that matters deeply to you and to rebuild it inside the minds of your listeners."
— TED Talks

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