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

7 Aug 2018 · 1 min

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TJ Walker offers spoken advice on avoiding bad impressions in presentations: instead of obsessing over minor delivery flaws (hand movement, filler words, order mistakes), focus on being interesting, memorable, and useful. The main claim is that audiences forgive small mistakes if the content is engaging and valuable; the bigger harm is wasting the audience's time with unmemorable, boring content.

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How do you avoid making a bad impression when delivering a presentation? In my experience, people worry about this a lot, but they're worrying about the wrong things. They're worried about, oh my gosh, I moved my hands, or I said two ums, or I forgot something or I didn't get something in the right order. Those are not things that the typical audience member notices or cares about. The far bigger problem, the more common problem, is just not saying anything interesting. Not saying anything memorable. Getting up there and it's just wah wah wah wah wah. Just a boring data dump. The biggest problem most of us have is we wasted the audience's time by not saying anything interesting and memorable. If you're interesting, memorable, and useful to the audience, they'll love you, and they'll also forgive any other little flaws.