The document discusses how presenters often rely too heavily on presentation tools like PowerPoint instead of their own skills and abilities. While tools can help presenters be heard, people have also created tools to hide behind. The most fundamental presentation tools are a person's mind, body and voice. When presenting, presenters should focus on how badly they want their ideas to come alive rather than the tools they use.

2. ..and so does powerpoint..

3. ...keynote..

4. ...nuclear waste..

5. ..and everything else that is
brighter than the speaker

6. All through history, people
sought for tools..

7. ..to help them to be heard
above the crowd.

11. But when time passed..

12. … people also invented tools to
hide behind.

16. The bad thing about tools is...

17. ... they are all dead.

18. If you have something important
to say...

19. …and you want to be heard…

20. …your presentation should be
alive.

21. So stop using dead tools.
;)

22. …and begin using a human
being’s most fundamental tools:

23. Your MIND...

24. …your BODY...

25. …and your VOICE.

26. Remember next time you
present...

27. …it is not about the tools you
use…
;)

28. …but about how badly you
want your ideas to be alive.

29. Arthur Sevenstern
arthur@excellentpresenteren.nl
www.excellentpresenteren.nl

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9/21/27: flickr/mega phone. Robert Nilsson
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