Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giving the longest inaugural address in U.S. history. The easy lesson from his story: keep it short, or you might die.

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking