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+title: "How to Deliver Good Presentations"
+date: "2024-03-26"
+post-type: "blog"
+featured-image: "./unsplash-andrew-seaman.jpg"
+featured-image-credit: "Photo by Andrew Seaman"
+featured-image-credit-link: "https://unsplash.com/photos/empty-theater-seat-Y8ruVPHUSnc"
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+This is actually pretty simple to do well, but you really have to put in the practice time. Don't kid yourself, it is humiliating to fuck up a presentation because you didn't practice enough. Unforced Error. Here's how to do it.
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+1. Do an ‘off the cuff’ version with no slides, or minimal slides.
+2. Experience the visceral terror of how bad the presentation will be if you do it ‘off the cuff’ or unpracticed.
+3. Do it a couple more times to really fire up the ‘presentation’ neurons
+4. Write down what you want to say like it was a speech, literally word for word what you want to say to the audience. 
+5. Practice the written down version a couple times
+6. Edit it heavily
+7. Practice 5-10 more times, making little adjustments, until you can mostly do it without looking at your text
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+Voila. Your presentation will most likely not suck, and you will have a confident handle on the material so that you can dynamically deliver it in front of an audience with a relative sense of comfort.