Below is a cut from our blooper reel where I forget the name of my own podcast.
My point for your presentations is that you will never be perfect. In this example, even if you’ve been doing your podcast for three years, you’re still going to forget the podcast’s name sometimes.
Have a vision for where you want to go, get incrementally closer to it each day, and have an infinite well of patience for yourself when you inevitably suck. That’s about the best you can do.
People do not come to your presentation to see how much you do not care about stuff. They come to your presentation to be infected with the same passion for the subject that you feel. Just look at this video of Angus Young playing the guitar in Paris in 1979. He's...
I sit in terror on one of the red plastic chairs lined up outside the Immigration Office. I relax my tight, white-knuckle grip on my documents and try to let the stress drain from my shoulders, but within a few seconds, both are back. I know I shouldn't worry about...
Be less efficient. Yes, you heard me right. (And by the way, today's email has nothing to do with presentation skills. So if you're a presentation skills person, you're going to need to do something else today. Sorry about that.) Business loves efficiency. Efficiency...