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This wasn’t good. With only about a month to go till the talk and a scary rehearsal in front of the TED staff only days away, I was way behind. When it came time for the rehearsal, I had gotten a loose script together, but I wasn’t sure if I liked it.

The rehearsal took place in the TED office in New York, in front of a friendly but intimidating semi-circle of TED senior staff.

I went through what I had, and it went okay until the last five minutes of the talk. I really didn’t like that part of the script, and during the rehearsal, I made the impromptu decision to go rogue and improvise, since I hated what was coming out of my mouth. This was a bad idea. What I ended up doing was a rambling and nonsensical ending that wasn’t that different from me picking words out of the dictionary at random and saying them.

There was a lot of work to do.

That night, the head of TED, Chris Anderson, hosted a dinner at his New York apartment for the speakers who were in town for rehearsals. If I already felt in over my head in this whole situation, meeting the other speakers didn’t help.

Luckily, I sat down at dinner next to a normal-seeming guy.

唉。快要排练和正式演讲的时候，我和图里的TIM差不多。排练前几天我写了个不完整的稿，我看着都觉得废。

我在纽约TED办公室排练，当时大半圈友好又吓人的TED老员工围着我。

我想了一遍我要说的，前9分钟都讲的没毛病。剩下一部分的稿子我不喜欢，所以开始边编边讲，我不喜欢的那部分就烟消云散了。但这是个错误的决定。

结尾杂乱无章又荒谬，就像我从词典中挑着词说。

为什么这样说呢，你要记住的是每个人都有自己的事要做，因为那是沿着威利车往前滚的糖旋风。

我要做的还有很多。。

那天晚上

TED的头儿

Chris Anderson

请我们参加排练的去他的公寓吃饭。经过这一切我已经懵逼了，和其他演讲者搭讪也没啥用。

你是做什么的？

我发现了世界上最大的恐龙。

这答案真棒，你呢，小伙。

我在神经学研究方面取得很大进展。

我解决了社会不平等。

还好，吃饭时候我坐在一个看起来挺普通的小伙。

你是什么职业？

我是企业家

（松了口气）这里这么让人紧张，你不感觉这是个骗局吗。

肯定的。

那么你的公司叫啥？我搜一下，加邮箱。

Airbnb（旅游短租）。

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