How to Speak Clearly Without Rambling!

Here are the key takeaways from the video "How to Speak Clearly Without Rambling!" by Vinh Giang:

Nervousness Is the Root of Rambling: Nervousness often leads to losing your train of thought and rambling when speaking. This is often because you’re too self-conscious and focused on yourself. To overcome this, shift your focus from yourself to your audience—become audience conscious rather than self-conscious.

Rehearse Properly: Most people don’t rehearse effectively. Rehearse your presentation or speech with high energy and effort, even if you’re alone. High-effort rehearsal (projecting energy, as if truly giving the talk) increases both muscle memory and retention, helping you remember what to say and reducing the risk of getting lost mid-speech. Use "table reads," turning your full speech into dot points after several energetic rehearsals.

Use Communication Frameworks: Frameworks prevent waffling and make you more clear, concise, and coherent. A simple and powerful framework shared is the 3-2-1 framework:

For any question, answer using either three steps, two types, or one main takeaway.
This forces you to structure your response, prevents rambling, and keeps your answer focused.
Examples: “There are three steps to the best milkshake experience…”, “There are two types of milkshakes…”, “The one thing you need to know about milkshakes is…”

Summary Table:

Problem	Solution
Nervousness	Focus on audience, not yourself
Losing track/rambling	Proper, high-energy rehearsal, table reads
Waffling	Use communication frameworks (esp. 3-2-1)

By applying these lessons, you’ll communicate with more clarity, confidence, and coherence, avoiding rambling and making your message stick.