My special power? Being a freak. My Weakness Information doesn’t stick in my mind properly; if you give me a series of information or instructions then I’ll only be able to partially recall it. I can be easily distracted; I suspect that if I told any of my friends I’d been diagnosed with attention deficit […]
This continues from last week’s post regarding authenticity. You have two ways of behaving: Your true nature. How you behave when with others. Table 7 Are Complete D**ks These two roles are like the waiting staff at a restaurant: while in the kitchen, they yell at each other with no pretence or politeness, in
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Them: “Hey, just be yourself.” You: “Why would I do that? I don’t want them to know what I’m really like.” An easy mistake to make. After all, you’re not particularly interesting, are you? You’re not really good at anything – and I mean really good – but you want to put across a professional,
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There’s a lot of Britishness in Star Wars (Episode IV, A New Hope) – Peter Cushing’s creepy Tarkin and Anthony Daniels’s pompous C-3PO in particular spring to mind, but the most inspiring to me is Alec Guinness’s gentlemanly Obi-Wan Kenobi; he’s relaxed, polite and ready to fight. And that’s a powerful combination. Old Ben Kenobi
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Some speakers have a slide for everything: the funny metaphor they’ve just used, the next subject heading. You name it, there’s an accompanying visual. Why? Because they think that’s what you do. Unfortunately, it’s mildly tedious for the audience, but a great source of comfort to the speaker because it’s a support, plus they think that ‘the
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