Embrace your fear. It’s not your enemy, it’s your essential companion during any important verbal communication, and it’s not going anywhere. So respect it and move on, because it’s possible to actually gain power from it. The people in the image above have no fear, because they’re clinically insane. The Facts Here’s what you need […]
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Who’s your favourite British comedy character? The humanity of my favourites is what fascinates me; their painfully ordinary lives, punctuated by petty victories that can be stolen away as easily as they happened. Characters such as Basil Fawlty and Harold Steptoe make efforts to rise above their limitations which can be pathetic and touching, but also
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I’ve started a taskforce. A taskforce of one, but still a taskforce. Our (my) mission will be to attend presentations and heckle the bad ones. This was inspired by a fairly awful presentation I attended recently. It had: Too many slides Too much information per slide All the spoken information written in full So much content it
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Not fitting in can be bad. But being different is really, really good – it makes you interesting. Being Different No plant by definition is a weed; it’s a label with no scientific basis, depending entirely on whether the plant is ‘desirable’ by someone for that particular location, and just means ‘doesn’t fit in according
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When speaking to a group, if they get one whiff of bullsh*t or pretence, you’re sunk. So just be yourself, and treat your audience as if they’re just like you. No-one to be scared of, but still deserving respect.DeliveryDon’t try to be an impressive ‘speaker’. Talk to the audience like you’re at your house chatting
