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Being able to build and deliver effective presentations has practical benefits—you can more efficiently sell whatever it is you sell or promote whatever business or professional practice you own, you can speed up a business’s growth, you can use yourself as ad media—but it also has personal benefits.
No B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations
Dan S. Kennedy, Dustin Mathews
What if, in our quest to recreate the certainty of the laws of physics, we are now too eager to impose the same consistency and certainty in fields where it has no place?
Alchemy
Rory Sutherland
Here’s the problem: the moment you first capture an idea is the worst time to try to decide what it relates to. First, because you’ve just encountered it and haven’t had any time to ponder its ultimate purpose, but more importantly, because forcing yourself to make decisions every time you capture something adds a lot of friction to the process. This makes the experience mentally taxing and thus less likely to happen in the first place.