Introductory Outline
Ethan Lovallo
What is your general topic?:
Life Lessons that shaped me
What is your overall organizational approach?
Life Lessons
What is the specific purpose of your speech?
The purpose of my speech is to introduce myself through life lessons that I have learned.
The life lessons, how I learned the life lesson and why it is important to me will help me explain
who I am as a person and give more insight into myself.
How will you establish relevance to your audience?
I will establish relevance to my audience by stating how I learned these life lessons.
Most of the audience is my age so they have probably experienced situations similar to me and
if they haven’t, they would still find them interesting.
What are your three main points?
My three main points are the life lessons that I have learned which are: gratefulness,
being yourself, and to always be there for your friends.
Introductory Speech Outline Template
Option 1: Life
Lessons
Introduction
1. (Attention): Hello everyone, my name is Ethan Lovallo, and I have this
overwhelming feeling to share with you all things that I have learned
throughout my life as a human being so far.
2. (Purpose/Self-Introduction): The purpose of my presentation is to introduce
myself through life lessons that I have learned.
3. (Relevance): As someone who is around the same age as you all, you
should care about this information because there is a good chance it can
be applied in your life as well. .
4. (Preview/thesis): Today, I will tell you about three life lessons that I learned
recently, which include, gratefulness, not caring for other people’s
judgement and the true meaning of friendship.
5. (Transition): These three topics may seem really obvious and broad, but I
think most of you will find interesting how I came to learn these ideals.
Body
1. (First main point/lesson): The first life lesson I learned is gratefulness.
a. (Briefly explain how you learned this lesson) I learned this lesson
through the realization that my life could be so much worse. I was
