Rotary Speech Contest, Story SLAM, MOTH, Last Story Standing, World Championship of Public Speaking, and more. Speech competitions abound, and today Darren and Mark are joined by Stage Time University faculty member Mike Davis as they face the question: "Why compete?" Their answers provide the myriad benefits of competing.

SNIPPETS:

• Get better faster, grow, and improve quickly

• Breakthroughs come from experience, and experience comes from competing

• Transcend your comfort zone

• Get coaches - plural

• Competition pushes you to work harder

• Get a higher level of feedback

• Push to be your best at your competition's level of excellence

• Build confidence

• Learn lasting techniques from the best

• Apply discipline and a process

• Work against a clock with deadlines