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One Skill That Helped Warren Buffett  Thrive

April 12, 2017


Warren Buffett has two college degrees, a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a master’s degree from Columbia Business School. And yet, only one diploma hangs on his wall: his certificate for graduating from a Dale Carnegie public speaking course.

Despite his education and early success, Warren had an innate fear of public speaking.
 
To address his fear of speech making, he enrolled in a Dale Carnegie public speaking course.

After learning some “psychological tricks” and being forced to speak in front of the class over and over again, Buffett finally got comfortable speaking in front of an audience.

Today, Buffett conducts countless radio and television interviews and gives speeches across the world, while also serving as CEO of a business with more than 350,000 employees. All of which require strong public speaking skills, and all of which are integral to him becoming one of the richest people in the world.

The process Warren Buffett followed to empower himself with new communication skills:         :

1. he identified an area of weakness that was holding him back – public speaking. 
  
2.  he took time out of his day to learn that skill, which would help him throughout the rest of his career.
 
It took his commitment to identify and to overcome a fear of speech making, time out of his day to learn new skills and to practice them.