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We spend so much time making things look polished - obsessing over slides, animations, transitions. But sometimes, clarity comes from stripping things away. 💡 ONE IDEA WELLWhen the projector failed, everything worked better. I was mid-way through an ALS course, ready to deliver the “Cardiac Arrest in Special Circumstances” lecture. I’d done it many times. The generic slide deck was burned into my brain - blue background, yellow Comic Sans, and all. But then the slide projector failed. No visuals. No bullet points. No fallback. So I just… talked. I told stories. I leaned on experience. I brought the nuances to life - the little things that don’t fit neatly on a slide but do stick in people’s memories. And it flowed. When the tech was stripped away, the connection came through. The session landed more deeply than any previous one. It taught me something: sometimes the best slides are the ones that never show up. 🧰 LESS MESS, MORE MESSAGEHere’s a challenge: If the answer is no, try this:
🧭 ASK YOURSELF THISIf your slides disappeared, would your audience still understand the key takeaways? |
TEACHING ISN’T A SCRIPT. NEITHER IS THIS.
One idea a week to help you teach and present with more clarity, confidence, and calm. No fluff. No scripts. Just practical tools that land.
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to show up well.Not perfectly. Not flawlessly. But fully present.Giving a talk at the Compassion Revolution was one of the biggest moments of my year—nine scenes, dozens of rehearsals, lines I’d memorised like poetry.And still…It didn’t go exactly to plan. Not in a cynical way. In a generous one.Because the best presentations aren’t about us. They’re about the people listening. 💡 ONE IDEA WELL They never knew. On the night before my Compassion...
✈️ Airport Thoughts Right now, I’m at the airport waiting to board a flight to Adelaide. Tomorrow, I’ll be stepping onto the stage at Compassion Revolution to do something I’ve never done before. No slides.No clicker.Just me, the audience, and the words I’ve chosen. 🎤 A Talk, or a Performance? Most of the time, I tell people not to memorise every word. Instead: Know your beats.Know where the story turns.Know the feeling behind each section. But this talk… is different. This one’s more like a...
Ever sit through a talk that starts with a mystery — and ends without solving it? It’s like watching a movie that opens on a gun resting on a desk. You notice it. You wait for it. But the payoff never comes. 💡 ONE IDEA WELL Chekhov’s Gun is a simple rule of storytelling: If you show the audience a gun in Act I, you’d better fire it by Act III. In your talk, the “gun” might be a provocative question, a compelling stat, or a case that promises a twist. And if you don’t circle back? You leave...