{"id":57,"date":"2007-03-14T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2007\/03\/14\/you-and-i\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T12:48:13","slug":"you-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/you-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"You and I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just found this <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"public speaking blog\" href=\"http:\/\/greatpublicspeaking.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/public-speaking-ten-yous-for-every-i.html\">blog post<\/a> about public speaking: I&#8217;d comment there, but I can&#8217;t find a way of being allowed to add a comment (which I thought was one of the key reasons for having a blog, myself&#8230;..)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a nice point &#8211; though a bit overstated for my tastes.\u00c2\u00a0 Presentations which use the word &#8220;I&#8221; turn me off, even when they&#8217;re a person of note or repute: it smacks of arrogance in the presenter.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you &#8211; a presentation full of &#8220;you&#8221; is likely to bug me too, as that sounds like the presenter is preaching&#8230;..\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;you must; you should; you are&#8230;.&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>My personal advice on our <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"presentation skills training course UK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tellingpeople.co.uk\">training course<\/a>s is to <strong>talk about what you&#8217;re talking about<\/strong> &#8211; the climb, the research, the music, whatever.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re concentrating on your <em>subject<\/em>, not yourself, then the question of how many times you &#8220;I&#8221; and how many times you say &#8220;you&#8221; (or even &#8220;we&#8221;) shouldn&#8217;t be an issue&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 Simon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just found this blog post about public speaking: I&#8217;d comment there, but I can&#8217;t find a way of being allowed to add a comment (which I thought was one of the key reasons for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}