Starting not so strong

How good you were at something when you began is a pretty useless measure for how good you can become at that thing.

I mean, the first tone that came out of my guitar was quite awful.

The first line of code that I wrote didn’t even compile.

The first story I wrote was pretty boring.

But I stuck with it.

Today, I’m a pretty decent guitarist, I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science and I help leaders across the globe tell their story.

As Paul Arden put it: “It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be.”

The kind of presentation I would want to listen to

A lot of presentations feel like the kind of thing that the speaker didn’t want to prepare but had to.

A much better approach would be to prepare a presentation so that it becomes the presentation your audience would want to listen to even if they didn’t have to.

Spread the Word

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Dr. Michael Gerharz