{"id":678,"date":"2010-06-21T19:16:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T18:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=678"},"modified":"2010-06-21T19:16:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T18:16:26","slug":"einstein-said-about-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/einstein-said-about-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Einstein said (about presentations&#8230;.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Presenting the man himself\" src=\"http:\/\/agoldenworld.files.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/albert_einstein_-325x378.png\" alt=\"presenting the man himself\" width=\"195\" height=\"227\" \/>&#8230;.that if you can&#8217;t explain it to a child (he even gave it an age!) then you don&#8217;t really understand it.  Sounds like good advice about making presentations, to me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m often struck by the fact that would-be presenters miss the fundamental truth of his point.  All too often I find people rushing into explanations of &#8216;how&#8217; without thinking about the fundamentals of &#8216;what&#8217;.  The thing is, audiences don&#8217;t know as much as you do (otherwise they would be giving the presentation, not you!) and so it&#8217;s not so easy for them to understand the details.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the details aren&#8217;t all that important (nor is a presentation the best way to pass details over!).  If you go into too many details too soon your audience won&#8217;t follow you&#8230;. and you&#8217;ll bore them to death.<\/p>\n<p>So how to avoid this?<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Einstein &#8211; imagine you&#8217;re making a presentation to a smart 12 year old, say.  That way you&#8217;ll avoid the temptation to rush into details and instead you&#8217;ll stay at a more sensible level of detail.  Think of it as a more user-friendly version of the old adage:<strong> think of your audience as an intelligent lay person<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the process of translating what you were going to say into what you&#8217;re now allowed to say is only going to help firm up your understanding, too! \u00c2\u00a0:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.that if you can&#8217;t explain it to a child (he even gave it an age!) then you don&#8217;t really understand it. Sounds like good advice about making presentations, to me. I&#8217;m often struck by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","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\/678","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}