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a lot of people have trouble presenting because suddenly the pressure makes them nervous and they have to try to act like themselves and they don’t know how to do that so call me crazy but I think you can learn a lot about presenting from the first landing on the moon Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldren the first people to set foot on another Celestial body I’m not talking about the first words when they landed I’m talking about the landing itself on the way down the whole idea of a lunar module is it’s going to be on autopilot and it was going to guide it down to a safe place but they had a bunch of computer glitches suddenly alarms were going off they had to reboot the computers part way down 60s computers and when they got it going again Neil Armstrong saw that the autopilot was going to land them on a rocky place and they might never be able to take off it became life or death to be able to go to manual when it comes to presenting we have to go to manual and that’s because we’re in an autopilot mode all day long we’re not paying attention to what our body does our normal self is just being itself and suddenly we become self-aware when we have the pressure of the audience and the alarms go off like I start to sweat I feel like I’m turning red I might Jitter I feel butterflies in my stomach my temperature is rising all of those anxiety tells are the warning lights that tell you your autopilot isn’t working you need to go to manual so what I want to recommend you try doing is check in on yourself you’re at dinner you’re in a meeting you’re hanging out with friends you’re on the phone your autopilots running check in on that occasionally check in and say oh what am I like and can I pay attention to what I’m like without disrupting it over time you start to develop an awareness pulling the autopilot from the subconscious and making at least partially in your conscious then when you go to present and you suddenly get hit with all those warning signs you can do what Neil Armstrong did and you can go to manual you can grab the joystick and even if you’ve only got 30 seconds of fuel you can fly across the moon find a place to put down as he did with only 15 seconds left of fuel he survived that Landing because he knew how to be aware of his autopilot and how to go to manual and that’s what can help you become a better
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