I am here to free you of your script that thing you took so much time to write carefully and try to memorize and recite as if it was coming off the top of your head and it didn’t sound like that I have a tree outside my front yard it’s a beautiful tree it’s an icon to the property I know that tree so well but I don’t know that tree leaf by Leaf I know it’s by its overall shape which is created by the trunk and the branches now think about leaves for a second this tree looks the same all year round I always know it’s that tree but in the spring they’re Buds and later on they become leaves and over the the summer the leaves get bigger and bigger in the fall they wither they change color and fall off and it is always still that tree the tree is not defined by its leaves it’s defined by its trunk and its structure and every year the leaves come back new this is how to think about presenting if the leaves of the tree are like your words and you’re focusing on describing your presentation one word at a time and getting them right is a very very difficult mindset and your mind is in the wrong place instead you want to focus on the trunk and the branches that’s the structure of your presentation and the various branches are like the movements in sequence when I practice the words come out different every time like the leaves every year on the same tree but it’s the same presentation because I adhere to the structure and the movements I get that sequence down and I let the words grow themselves just like the the tree it’s just going to grow its leaves automatically at times it’s like a wall of leaves but I can still see it because of the structure if the wind blew I wouldn’t know the difference whether some of the leaves were missing or or new one sprouted it doesn’t matter so I want you to think about putting your focus in your presentation on the structure and sequence get it down so it flows like the same presentation each time but let the words come out each time growing fresh at the end of each rehearsal the leaves have fallen now bring that same structure and sequence and do another run let the word form naturally and what you’re doing there is benefiting from the structure and flow of something that you’ve designed yet your natural personality is coming out through the words of the moment
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