In my fifth week of speech class, I watched one of the top ten most popular TEDx talk videos posted on the homepage’s playlist which unleashes fresh ideas from local communities. Simon Sinek, one out of almost 50,000 speakers, chose to talk about how great leaders inspire action. This particular event is one out of 10,000 events held since the program launched in 2009. What you are about to learn is what I thought he did well, what he did not do as well or could have improved upon to make his speech better, and what I took from the speech that I can model to make myself a better speaker. Overall, I thought his speech was amazing. He spoke about how Apple was innovative, Martin Luther King led the civil rights movement, and the Wright Brothers man-powered flight. Apple is considered innovative because they challenged the status quo by reversing the way information was delivered to the audience. Martin Luther King began his speech by “I have a dream” rather than “I have a plan” to get all kinds of people to show up for themselves instead of specifically a select group. Whenever Simon Sinek mentioned the Wright Brothers tactics, he added a noise of the plane flying in the background. In my opinion, there were some things that did not go smoothly in his speech - such as the microphone’s feedback at the beginning. It was corrected by bringing in another microphone which allowed his voice to be projected clearly, but there was a lot of feedback and background noise when he was speaking with the first microphone. Also, there was a few times that the speaker stuttered over his words. I noticed that it seemed as if he got ahead of himself when talking and repeated the same word or phrase over unintentionally before moving on with what he had to say. Another time, since he had a display to write on, he ended up with a marker in his hand. That was very distracting to me since it was not a part of the message he was attempting to conve