You know those presenters who read out from slides? You know how you detest them? Well there’s a reason. And it comes all the way from Hollywood The Hollywood saying goes like this: If the scene shows you what the scene is supposed to show you, you’re in deep shit. What does that mean? If [...]
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Have you ever been to a primary school play? There they are, all the kids, all keen to play their part. And then one kid forgets his part He stands there dumbfounded. Unable to speak. Frozen in fear. The words seemingly circulating in his brain somewhere. I was that kid! Except I wasn’t five years [...]
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Offer 1: The Brain Audit + Special Goodies worth $158 *If you’ve wondered why customers back away at the last minute, both online and offline, you’ll find the specific answers on the page below. *If you have a website or intend to sell something off your website, you’ll avoid all of these mistakes, that if [...]
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Can you really tell when your audience has had a full feed of information? Amazingly the answer lies in the eyes and ears of the participants. Look first at the eyes And if you look at the eyes, you’ll think you’re the best speaker on the planet. You’ll think your audience is rapt with attention. [...]
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I didn’t give up video. I just got busy. You know how it is, right? You want to do something and then you make this grand list. Then you do a bit of it. And you do some more. And some more. And you get results. And then you do a spectacularly stupid thing. You [...]
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How many days does it take to recover from conducting a workshop? Back in the year 2001, it used to take me about a week. Three days after the workshop, I’d be utterly exhausted. And it would be another four days before I could really crawl back to work at normal speed. And it was [...]
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A few weeks ago I went for swimming classes It’s not that I can’t swim, but I’ve only ever learned the breaststroke. And if you’re a swimmer, the breaststroke doesn’t get you anywhere in a hurry. And so I went to learn freestyle. Except that’s when I ran into a whole lot of trouble. Why [...]
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Have you ever been to a primary school play? There they are, all the kids, all keen to play their part. And then one kid forgets his part. He stands there dumbfounded. Unable to speak. Frozen in fear. The words seemingly circulating in his brain somewhere. I was that kid! Except I wasn’t five years [...]
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Seminars are just information dumps Yes, I don’t mind going to a seminar, but it’s just a newsreel. You then have to go out and do all the hard work. In fact, everything that’s being taught at that seminar could have been downloaded on a PDF file and an audio (if not video). But let’s [...]
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Let’s say you run a workshop. Or you run a forum. The single biggest problem that most of us have is the factor of participation. So how does participation increase? It’s called the common understanding For example at Psychotactics.com we have a book called The Brain Audit. The Brain Audit has certain parameters. And details. [...]
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Twas the night before the presentation. Fear filled the room. What if I look like an idiot? What if I don’t get the message across like I want to? What if, indeed! Giving a presentation or a speech or ahem…a teleclass need not be intimidating. And contrary to what most people may tell you, structure [...]
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Put on some Bach, Beethoven or Chopin. And listen to the music. What do you hear? You hear variation. The music races madly ahead. Then it stops. It goes softer, then louder. Then at a normal volume once again. And variation isn’t just restricted to classical music. It’s pretty much everywhere you look. In cartoons, [...]
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