Marco Rubio broke the internet last week when his performance at the Republican Debate went viral. Rubio repeated the same rehearsed lines five times, and was called out on the carpet by none other than New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. What can we learn from his gaffe?

Don’t over-rehearse, and stay loose. If Rubio were smart, he would have recognized that he was sticking to his script too much, and dropped the canned lingo. In any speaking scenario, it’s best to speak loosely from a set of bullet points, three to four words a piece, and not from a script. It seems as if Rubio scripted his answers too tightly, and become too wedded to his wording.

If you find yourself sounding canned as you rehearse, or repeating the same phrase, stop rehearsing ! Try to get back to the emotional essence of what you want to say, rewrite the script in bullet point form using different words, and quietly go over your main ideas.

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