Category Archives for "speaking"

Congratulations, your submission is almost ready!

Just a few more finishing tips and adjustments to polish things up, and give you the highest chance of approval.

We are now getting to the end of the submission process.

Having your WHO, the PROBLEM and the TRANSFORMATION, together with a plan for your CONTENT and the ACTION that you will suggest is everything you need to write an awesome abstract!

There are two pieces you will need for your abstract, and we will deal with both of them in this lesson.

Remember from the first lesson that the CONTENT is the bridge between the PROBLEM and the ACTION.

It is the CONTENT that will inspire people to take the ACTION (that will eventually cause the desired TRANSFORMATION).

For people to decide if they will come to watch or not your presentation…
And also for the committee to decide if they will or not select your talk…

They need to think your presentation will be great.

They decide that on the title of your presentation.

Presenting at events can be a HUGE career boost for you.

To help you with that, this is the first post in a series, that will walk you through preparing and submitting talks to events.

There is a very important skill that is required of any Senior professional, and that every developer should master.

It is so important, that if you don’t have that, people will confuse you with a junior…

You see, when we learn a new tool…
(hammer)
or a new skill
(using a hammer…)
Everything around us seems to need it…
(nails, nails, I see nails everywhere…)

So, when you learn to speak, remember that in fact speaking is NOT the most important.

Is “writing a book” a skill?

We sometimes treat as if it is…
“I’d like to write a book, but I’m not good enough at it”.
(I said that many times in my life…)

But it is a dream many people have…
(Plant a tree. Write a book. I’m sure you heard that…)

Have you ever though about writing a book someday?

Is optimism a skill?
Is it a mindset?
Worldview?
A habit?

Optimism is actively looking around for positive reaches.
It is to look for ways to take positive actions.
Even in the middle of difficulties…

And look, I’m not saying this is easy.
Sometimes it is very, very difficult…