A young child’s motivational speech goes viral

All right, so he’s cuter than your CEO. But what can public speakers learn from a kid in a bicycle helmet?

There are few more boring ways to spend an afternoon than in the company of a wooden speaker.

How often have you heard someone address a subject you’re really interested in, only to find yourself falling asleep as he or she drones on in a monotone? On the other hand, a speaker who harnesses emotion and enthusiasm can brighten even a dull subject.

The question is how the good ones pull it off. Like anything in life, it helps to have models. So in the interests of encouraging professional advancement, here is a motivational speaker who would blow away even the most jaded audience.

He happens to be a kid who has just ridden a bike for the first time, and his words are already going viral.

“I feel—I feel—I feel happy on myself!” he begins.

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