Don’t Drop the Mic: The Power of Your Words Can Change the World by T.D. Jakes Book Review

In Don’t Drop the Mic, T.D. Jakes explored the power of communication and how we can be better at speaking, using our body language, and presenting ourselves to others. He has been preaching for countless years and he has learned what works and what doesn’t. He called this book drop the mic because he wants to guide readers into gearing up for their drop the mic performance in their own speeches. First, he shared how his father was a hard worker and rarely stopped what he was doing. Jakes noticed how one day he stopped in his tracks what he was doing to watch the famous speech from Dr. Martin Luther King. He explained how the world listened to his speech and he saw the power of the microsphere and how it can help change the world. Jakes also looked at the Bible and how there is power of life and death in our tongue. Throughout the book, he looked at the pregnant pause, body language, delivering your message, handling the fear factor, the promise of practice, and the process of preaching. In the book, he also teamed up with Dr. Frank Thomas, who is a pastor and a renowned scholar who will also share his own stories in a few chapters in the book. He uses a cooking metaphor to discuss how to be a better communicator and how we can apply the same principles we use for cooking to analyze our own message. 

 

 

I would recommend this life changing book to anyone who is wanting to become a preacher but also to anyone who has to give a speech or delivering a message to an audience. He explained that this book is to the job interviewer, businessman/woman, performance on stage, teacher, preacher, and communicating with others. I immensely loved how he covered all aspects of communication and how to deliver a message that has impact. One of my favorite areas, he covered was the topic of sound check and when he discussed perfectionism and how he had to deal with his own challenges. He had to also learn to let go and accept that no matter how hard we try to get the speech correctly, there will always be something we wish we could have done or said better. We can learn from our experiences and use the construction feedback and try and improve what we can. I also appreciated all the tips and how he took readers through the different areas of how he learned to preach and how he dealt with his own challenges and how he was able to become a better communicator. I also enjoyed how the used stories in the Bible to convey how they experienced their own drop the mic moments, such as David. I also enjoyed in the appendix Dr. Thomas’ analysis of one of Jakes sermon and what we can learn from using the principles in this book to become better communicators.   

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Hachette Book Group/Faithwords for my honest review.” 

 

 

 

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https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Drop-Mic-Power-Change/dp/1455595357/