Yeah. "Before I get into the story, I want to invite your participation." OK?

Instead of saying, "It’s working great and all of my ideas are fantastic," you said, instead, "It’s transforming the society." That’s perfect. Doesn’t that give you a good bridge? "Am I now engaged? I want to hear, my god, how’s that happening?"

Fantastic. You have to tell me what’s true. I love that because you’ve not taken the credit for it. I always say that the speaker should be as humble as possible, right?

What would you say? Tell me.

"I’m an optimist because right now it seems to be working." How does that sound? Something like that. Listen, I just made that up based on what you told me. How did that sound to you?

"Today, I’m the Digital Minister of Taiwan, the first digital minister, and I’m still trying to bring some of these radical ideas that I learned in 1995 to my work. They include radical transparency, blah-blah-blah-blah, and blah-blah-blah-blah." OK.

For some reason -- whatever it was -- you wanted to do this, you have to tell me why. OK?

My teacher even agreed that it was a good idea that I drop out of school, because I said that I wanted to learn on the web. I wanted to use this new thing called the World Wide Web because a lot about it appealed to me. It was anarchistic, ...

I think it’s, "Unlike many people in the world, I’m an optimist. And this is a strange thing to be right now, but with me it started in 1995. That year I dropped out of school. I was 15 at the time.

I thought it was a much better start, first of all. It felt much more honest and much more real and, actually, much more serious. I don’t think talking about time or the weather is a terribly interesting way to start.

What do you think?

Keep going. Start again. Go on.

I just want to hear how it sounds. OK?

Let me hear a start with optimism, OK?

Let’s skip it.

Let me do something else. Stop the future. Forget the future.

Go for it. It’s yours.

I think if I were you...I think the future’s fine. "Greetings from the future. I’m eight hours ahead, it’s already tomorrow, and in Taiwan we’re doing the future of democracy." And, "Unlike most people in the world that I know right now, I’m incredibly optimistic."

Or try it. We’ll see if it works. We’ll know if it works right away. You knew that before. Let’s do it now.

Start with this idea of optimism, OK?

You know what? Don’t start there.

I got you, I got you. Begin.

I want you full screen, please.

You’re actually live with them at this moment. Correct?

Because this is the moment when people get to see you, right?

I want to watch you here. OK?

All right Audrey, give it a go. Let’s see what...Can I look at you full time please...

Start please with the optimist. Give me maybe a two-minute introduction. I’m going to clock it, and if it’s going too long or if you feel like it’s going too long, just stop and we’ll start again. We’ll get it. We want it to go fast. Maybe a minute and ...

You will absolutely get it to a place where it still may feel unnatural, but it will sound...I think you’ll understand the effect of it. OK?

But that’s really good. You’re really doing it. Thank you. I love your participation. You’re really going for it. We will hone this in the next hour. OK?

Again, you’re probably 30 percent too much. OK?

[laughs] You’re pretty good. I mean that’s...

Just read anything. I don’t care what it is.

Can you try with me now? Just read something in front of you. I don’t care what it is. Put a pause in after a sentence or two. Let me see if I can hear it.

You can use pausing as a way of slowing down, and I think you actually will slow down, actually, a little more just by adding that actual pause. OK?

The way to do it I think is a little more efficient is at the end of a powerful sentence or at the end of a paragraph of thinking, pause for a second, just pause. Give it some silence. It gives the audience some time to catch up. It breaks ...

If you’re going to slow, here’s what I want you to do. Slowing down is very hard to do. We all revert to our natural pace. That’s just us.

You do a little bit actually, but not so much. All right?

Listen, don’t worry about the filler words. I’m very sensitive to filler words. You, actually, you don’t use actually that much actually.

Let’s just fuck with that with radical transparency. OK?

Let’s fuck with that to start.

Is there anything else before we kick into this? Was there anything else that stood out? Was it speaking more slowly? Was there anything else that you thought, OK, I’d like to work on with this guy.

I’m so happy to know that you read them. I had no idea if anybody was going to read them or not. They really work best when it’s one-to-one. It’s hard to read something and get good at it, right?

Good. Let’s start there. Let’s see how that works if it works. I never told you anything about me, but I’m going to give you a bunch of tools as I already have. You’re going to take the ones that work for you.

Am I correct or not?

I sort of think the optimist is your theme. That’s a good them by the way. It’s something you can come back to 100 times, but it’s certainly a way to rap, also gives you a good conclusion. I believe from what I’ve seen and heard from you in one ...

I’d like to do it a couple of times. I’d like to start it off with in 1995 or when I was 16, just start right there, or I’m an optimist. Whatever it is that you want to start with, let’s just, pick a place. OK?

Very good. Do you want to walk me through the presentation now, the deck you’re going to use? You want to do that?

Perfect. OK. Very good. Let’s just use the tone, and the emotion, and the word emphasis going forward, OK?

By the way, I think when you begin your presentation, it would be a good idea to introduce, I don’t know if you do this in the beginning, the comments. I think you should invite the participation very early. Do you do that?