SPI 866: How to Get Better at Anything, Faster

I have a confession to make, and this may not sound great up front, but I'm going to tell you why this is everything. Tomorrow I'll be speaking at social media marketing world, and I think it's in its 10th or 11th or 12th year, I'm not exactly sure, but all I know is I've been there every single year. And I've been on the keynote stage twice. I have run multiple workshops and every time I've had these amazing slides, one of my superpowers actually is creating slides that really tie into the talk that I'm giving and sometimes very memorable slides, especially when it comes to frameworks and things like that. But I have a confession to make, like I said earlier, I don't have my slides ready.

I don't have my slides ready. In fact, I haven't even gotten started yet. It is Monday, March 31st. I speak on April 1st, and no, I'm not going to go up on stage and go, ah, April fools, I don't have my slides, I'm not prepared. No, I'm completely prepared.

Because the truth is, I will not be using slides at all. And this will be the first time that I will have never used slides on a presentation like this. I was always so worried and so obsessed with the slides and how they look that I started to notice that they started to take away from me actually thinking about how can I best engage with the audience. And so I'm going to practice something that I speak heavily about in my upcoming book. Lean learning.

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