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Inc. has a good article on being funny when presenting
It breaks it down into 3 things: 1. Don't Tell Jokes, Tell Stories: Long jokes take too long, short jokes fall flat. Tell a funny story instead. 2. Tell Funny Stories; tell Familiar Stories: Find something in common with your audience to laugh about together. Otherwise tell a universally funny story. 3. Don't Try to be Funny, Learn to be Funny: Storytelling and humour are skills honed over time, not talents. Practice, practice, practice. With my limited public speaking experience I agree with the advice. Stories are what drives presentations and connecting with your audience. Some people think I'm funny and that comes from constantly rehearsing the jokes with friends, loved ones, in my head. I test it out, and if the story fails to resonate, I tweak it. Storytelling and being funny really are like anything else. You need to keep training to get better at it. Emerging market equities tear up the history book
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Sometimes in business you've got to take risks
Most of us are risk averse. Lawyers are often avoiding risks; its what we're trained to do. But innovation is all about risk: monetary risk, risk of R&D failure, risk to ideas being stolen, risk of staff not adapting to the change, and so on. Of course there's a lot of ways to manage risk: insurance, bringing on partners, starting smaller, sand boxing, and so on. Ultimately, innovation and change is risk, and if we cannot embrace that risk, then we cannot innovate and grow. Even when we first learned to walk, we had to take a risk. The risk of falling. I'm not sure what was going on in my head then, but when I took my first tentative steps, there must have been all sorts of risk buzzers going off in my head. Or maybe not. Maybe I did not know the risks that's why I decide to try it. I'll never know and my sons are no help. I doubt they remember their first steps either. But in that first basic act, we were all, knowingly or unknowingly, risk takers. Perhaps we should all remember our first steps the next time we weigh the risks. I too Sometimes we write with ambiguity in mind
Celeste Ng shares her writing process, and that sometimes writing for her is a messy and not altogether planned exercise. She shares how sometimes her characters have very intricate internal as well as relational details but she leaves them out because it does not need to be so specific. This reminds me of Frank Herbet's Dune series and how many details are left unsaid. The books were compelling because you could make the connections yourself. The problem when Brian Herbert sought to finish his father's work was that he put in too much details, trying to explain all the complicated relationships that the characters in his father's work had. I believed he got lost in the details and the stories were not as engaging. I too have that fault. Perhaps having been a Dungeons & Dragons (D& D) Dungeon Master (DM) for so long, my attempts at fiction tend to fill in too much detail. It starts simply enough with an idea, but as I write I tend to fill in too much detail. It does not help that my day job requires specificity when writing. Nonetheless, I find that somethings not said (even in Sentencing Submissions or Statements of Fact), but hinted to, have a very strong effect on the minds of the reader. Ms Ng also talks about how ambiguous books are good and cites Goodnight Moon. How books that don't try to fill in all the detail but give you enough anchoring for your mind to explore tend to be good. Essentially creativity and imagination with anchoring. Perhaps that is how creative thinking should be taught; how brainstorming or option generation should be like. Anchored to some facts, but the mind is given space to make its own subconscious connections between the available information. Interesting indeed. Hi folks. Thought I'd comment on this seeing as how I have had several encounters with people who were scammed by timeshares. This guide can also work for those who bought packages from beauty or spa companies.
First, not all timeshares are scams, but there are a lot out there that are on the shadier side. I've been to a few just to get an idea. Second, this is merely my opinion, and it may not be a perfect one. |
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