t you expect nearly 45 minutes of quality entertainment. And I was just talking to the Locals platform before I signed on to YouTube, and I said, hmm, challenge to see if I could come up with a story that would be useful. You know, you would actually get something from it and it would fill in the time. Because with less than 15 seconds to go, I didn't have enough content to go more than 10 minutes.

But why is it that I wasn't worried whatsoever? Well, how many times have I told you I took the Dale Carnegie course? It was just the most awesome thing. One of the many things you learn is to be prepared to give a speech at any time. Isn't that weird? That's such a specific skill, isn't it? You should be prepared to give a speech anytime. Just somebody might say, "Scott, could you stand up and give us a few words?" And you'd be like, look. So you should be prepared.

Now let me tell you a story where this mattered. A number of years ago I was doing a book tour where you go around the country to various big bookstores and you sign a lot of copies of your book. And one of the big stores I went to was in Denver. I think it was not just a bookstore, it was almost like a complex. It was like a major bookstore plus operation. And so you usually have a handler, and your handler goes with you and takes you to the various places you have to visit for interviews and whatever.

And the handler and I walk in, and the manager of the bookstore greets us, is all excited that I'm there, and says, "Oh, we're so happy that you're here. People have been waiting for your speech for over an hour." And I said, "My what?" They said, "Your talk. People are really excited about your talk." And I said, "My what? My what?" It sounded like you said talk. They said, "Yeah, your talk that you're gonna give. The room is full. It's an overflow capacity. Can't believe how many people showed up." And I said, "The room? The talk? The what?"

I thought I was just there to sign books. And she goes, "Yeah." And she takes me to the room and opens the door, and there's this enormous auditorium full of people who are waiting for my talk that I had no idea I was giving until I showed up.

Now what happened? Well, I took the Dale—I may have mentioned because I took the Dale Carnegie course—I had a speech, and so I just gave it. That was it. And so I'm demonstrating to you what I learned in the Dale Carnegie course. So because I was light on material, I always have like a little bag of stories that have some useful point to them. So my useful point is it is really, really useful to have a little bag of stories. And you might want to have one that's sort of something about your company or one that's like an interesting thing you would tell, you know, if you were asked to be interesting at a party. You just have five stories that you could just whip out in a minute. Very usefu