The document discusses the "6 x 6 Rule", which proposes that ideas can be visualized and understood using a six-slice pie model. Any storyline or presentation can be broken down into six key elements and brought to life by selecting pictures to represent each element and arranging them in the appropriate order. Effective presentations typically start with either a portrait, to introduce who is speaking, or an equation, to explain the purpose or why, and then work clockwise around the six-slice pie to cover the remaining elements.

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The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.

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The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.
The pie of how we think breaks down into 6
slides as a model for the way we think

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The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.

4. The 6 X 6 Rule, Revisited : 03-25-14
The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.

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The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.

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The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.
We bring all 4 storylines to life simply
by combing sets of our 6 pictures
To bring any of these 4 storylines to life all we have to do is “pick
a few pictures” and put them in the right order

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The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.
The rest of the session provides examples of storylines and picking the
pictures and thinking about the order that we put them in

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The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.
We are going to work our way around
the pizza pie
• Typically for a presentation we are
going to start either with a portrait
and work our way around or with an
equation and work our way around
• It works to start with the ‘who’ and
‘what’ and leave the “why” to the end
of the presentation which is the
payoff or the moral of the story
• However there are many instances
that people are not sure why we are
giving them a presentation
• If that is the case it is beneficial to
start with the equation
• “Here us why I am here and let me
tell you a little bit about myself”; and
then you can proceed through the
other 4 pieces of the pizza pie

9. The 6 X 6 Rule, Revisited : 03-25-14
The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.

10. The 6 X 6 Rule, Revisited : 03-25-14
The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.

11. The 6 X 6 Rule, Revisited : 03-25-14
The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.

12. The 6 X 6 Rule, Revisited : 03-25-14
The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.

13. The 6 X 6 Rule, Revisited : 03-25-14
The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.

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The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.

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The six-slice visual pie that helps us visualize any idea.