{"id":116,"date":"2008-06-10T21:14:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2008-06-10T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T20:14:08","slug":"think-to-be-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/think-to-be-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Think to be ready!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a (strong) Introvert (in the sense that I get my emotional energy from inside my head), I&#8217;ve often been asked about the fact that I &#8220;do presentations for a living&#8221;.  With a confused (or challenging) air I&#8217;m told: you can&#8217;t be an introvert, look at what you do for a job.<\/p>\n<p>That mis-understands the nature of being an introvert (in the Jungian sense);  I may get my energy from thoughts inside my head, but that doesn&#8217;t stop me from going public with them, when I&#8217;m good and ready.  That&#8217;s the big difference between me and the extraverts around me &#8211; they tend to go public in order to get ready.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s something I blogged about a long time ago (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.curved-vision.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2007\/07\/25\/facial-feedback\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curved-vision.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2006\/06\/29\/stallholders-are-you-listening\/\">here<\/a>)  and it seems I&#8217;m not the only one who finds this interesting.  With the exception that my understanding is that introverts comprise much more than a mere 10% of the population, I pretty much endorse everything said in this article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.career-intelligence.com\/management\/Introvert.asp\">http:\/\/www.career-intelligence.com\/management\/Introvert.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mind you, there&#8217;s an upside to being an introvert presenter, too&#8230;. while it&#8217;s true that I&#8217;m less able to respond (instinctively) to my audience, perhaps, it&#8217;s also true that I&#8217;m less easily &#8216;thrown&#8217; by my audience, perhaps&#8230;..  :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a (strong) Introvert (in the sense that I get my emotional energy from inside my head), I&#8217;ve often been asked about the fact that I &#8220;do presentations for a living&#8221;. With a confused (or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,9,12],"tags":[28,36,37],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-key-posts","category-personal-blog-related","category-presentation-tips","category-reviews-case-studies","tag-introversion","tag-presentations","tag-presenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}