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Archive for March, 2005

Pulp Fiction

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

One Minute Pause No 7
In the movie Pulp Fiction Bruce Willis plays boxer Butch - a class act who has fallen on the wrong side of the local baddie, Marcellus Wallace.
Butch is on the run and arranges with his girlfriend to meet at a hotel, with their most important possessions, before they skip […]

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Your Audience’s Audience

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

One Minute Pause No 6
The best speakers in the world not only think of their immediate audience, but of their audience’s audience.
Consider this:
When you have been in an ordinary presentation, you leave the room feeling that it has in no way affected your life.
When you have seen a good presentation, you are usually motivated to […]

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Gold Medals and German Shepherds

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

One Minute Pause No 5
In the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games all eyes were on Carl Lewis. His fourth gold medal awaited him in the long jump - to give him the record for the most medals won in the event (ever).
However, as he was lining up to take his third, and ultimately gold medal […]

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Shut Up!

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

One Minute Pause No 4
This is a subject so dear to my heart that it had a lot to do with this newsletter being named One Minute Pause.
So here goes:
When making a presentation, our ability to shut-up, or pause, is as important as the spoken component.
Why? There’s bucket loads of reasons.
I led a presentation […]

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How aroused is your audience?

Tuesday, March 1st, 2005

One Minute Pause No 3
In Mindwatching - Why we behave the way we do, Hans Eysenck proves that shy or introverted people have higher habitual levels of mental arousal than extroverted or outgoing people, who have a low level of arousal.
At first this may seem surprising - even counter intuitive. However, it begins to […]

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