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I, yeah, I, I would like to talk to, talk about how the uninitiated present. They're
typically nervous, suspicious, feeling out of control and now that I've demonstrated
that for you. I'd like to take myself out of that mode and bring myself back into the
better mode, the one where I feel better and talk about this a little bit more. The uninitiated
also present unaware of the impact of their physical presence, which is what I was just
trying to demonstrate to you. And also unclear on the audience's main take-away. So let me
talk a little bit more about each of those things. If we're not clear on what the audience
wants, and we're convinced that the audience just wants to criticize us, that's scary it's
frightening. Nobody wants to face that. If we're suspicious that they're going to try
to tear us down then we tend to have a negative attitude toward the audience. If we think
they're going to try to rip apart our credibility then we feel angry with them. Not a good feeling.
And we feel out of control of our content and if we're not aware of what we're supposed
to be doing with ourselves physically, we feel physically out of control as well. Uninitiated
presenters, that is presenters who have not been trained, who have not had practice with
feedback tend to be very unaware of the impact of their physical presence. I can't tell you
how many times I've seen presenters with their glasses in their mouths. They can't even talk
very well. What's the point of that? It's annoying to the audience. And they're also
unclear on the audience's main take-away, and that happens to be one big confidence
booster for a presenter. If you know since your goal is to get a message across to the
audience that one main message is key. And that as long as you get that message across
the audience's time is well spent, then you will have much greater confidence when you
give your presentations.