Before you start designing slides or rehearsing lines, ask yourself: What change am I trying to create?
Do you want your audience to see something differently? Do something they hadn’t planned? Feel something more deeply?
A good presentation leads your audience somewhere new.
Every choice you make – what to include, what to leave out – should support that shift.
If the change feels too big for one talk, narrow it. Make it clear and achievable.
The real result of a great talk shows up after it ends.
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