5Being Yourself and Dealing with Mistakes
One of the most important aspects of giving a presentation – in addition to getting the content right and making it interesting, which we are covering later in the book – is simply to be yourself.
One of the biggest mistakes that I've seen people make, when giving talks or presentations, is thinking they have to become someone else.
They think they've got to be this slick professional speaker that doesn't make any mistakes, where their presentation is highly polished and they deliver it like a performance in front of the Royal Family. Whereas, in all honesty, what you need to do is one thing and one thing only. And that is to be yourself.
This is the biggest transformational step that I took while ...
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