If you have seen the movie Swingers, you probably can appreciate the many great one-liners in Mikey’s quest to forget his recent break-up and move on with his life in Los Angeles. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. It’s a classic.

You may remember the scene where Trent is coaching Mikey on how to ask a girl out. It made movie history as being the motivational speech of 1996. For anyone who is fearful of telling their own story the same principle applies:

“You’re so money and you don’t even know it… I don’t want you to be the guy in the PG-13 movie everyone’s really hoping makes it happen. I want you to be like the guy in the rated R movie, you know, the guy you’re not sure whether or not you like yet. You’re not sure where he’s coming from. Okay?
You’re a bad man. You’re a bad man, Mikey.
You’re a bad man, bad man.”

You have probably noticed that every time you give a presentation your audience is amazingly sensitive. In fact, they pick up on everything you say and do. They watch how you use your hands, they check your grammar, analyze your clothing, study your posture, and they criticize your content. Why?

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