Nick Morgan
Nick Morgan
Nick Morgan:2 is an American speaking coach and author...
hear stories
I hear stories like these all the time.
easily takes time undo
E-mail can easily be angry, hurtful, or critical. It takes a lot of time to undo the damage.
deliver prepare trouble
If you are going to take all the trouble to prepare and deliver a speech, make it worthwhile, ... Working the Room.
jobs cutting knives
A language like Ruby is a toolbox with some really neat little tools that do their job really nicely. JavaScript is a leather sheath with a really really sharp knife inside. That knife can cut anything, and with it you can do anything. You can kill a bear. You can catch fish. You can whittle a piece of wood into a pony. It's even a toothpick.
letting-go thinking giving
Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught up in their own concerns and so driven to cover certain points or get a certain message across that they can't be bothered to think in more than a perfunctory way about the audience. And the irony is, of course, that there is no hope of getting your message across if that's all the energy you put into the audience. So let go, and give the moment to the audience.