TJ WALKER - THE HABIT INFLUENCER - Personal Development | LIVE STREAM

Human beings are horrible multitaskers. We all think we're great. We all think we can do ten things at once. Just ask yourself, do you want to be on a highway behind someone who's texting and driving at the same time? All the research shows that person is more dangerous than a drunk driver. Human beings are simply not very good at multitasking. And that's a real problem with the way Most people deliver PowerPoint presentations. Because they're talking at the very same time they're asking people to look up here at a slide and read a whole bunch of text. Listen to me. No, read this. No, listen to me. No, read this. You're asking people to multitask. Horrible, horrible idea. You should ask your audience to do one thing at a time without distracting them. If you're speaking, you shouldn't have any slide up for them to look at. If you have a slide up, shut your mouth and let them look at your slide. So how do you do that? One simple solution is you have a slide. You finish the slide, you now want to talk again. You simply hit the letter B on your computer. Any computer, any English language computer keyboard will simply black out the screen and people can now look at you because there's nothing interesting to look at on the screen. Hit any key whatsoever and it brings back the slide that you were on. You can also hit the letter W and it whites out the screen. Now, I don't like to use that because it's a little too harsh and bright and it still attracts attention, but that's something you can do. A lot of people learn a lot of fancy gizmo special effects in PowerPoint, but this is something that makes it easier for your audience to focus on one thing at a time. Just hit the letter B. By the way, it doesn't work unless you are in slide view mode, so you had to be giving the presentation. But hit B while you're in presentation mode and it will black out the screen.