Chapter 14 - So you’ve made it – brilliant, well done!

But can you remember how to do brilliant presentations time after time? Are you confident that the ‘wow’ of day one isn’t a drab drizzle of a presenter on day two? Do not join the hero-to-zero-club, read this chapter before every presentation. However brilliant you are. However good everyone said the last presentation was. Take nothing for granted. Read it again and again. It’ll stop you making sloppy mistakes or falling back into bad habits. It’ll stop you getting cocky. As Robert Fitzsimmons the boxer said, ‘The bigger they come the harder they fall.’ You are at your most vulnerable when you are at your most brilliant. Don’t stumble; your ...

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