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🪤 The Feedback Trap: How to protect your presentation confidence
The high-performance habit that will make you a better presenter.
Alex Merry
April 17, 2023
After every presentation you deliver, ask yourself the following 3 questions:
On a scale of 1 to 10, how:
1. Confident did I feel? 🙌
2. Clear was my message? 💡
3. Connected was my audience? ⚡️
Let me explain…
Most presenters tend to take an all-or-nothing approach when reflecting on their presentations…
Either it went well, or it didn’t ⚖️.
Given we are almost always our own toughest critics, more often than not, it will be the latter.
I call this The Feedback Trap.
Imagine for a minute that you’ve been building a nice streak of presentations that have ‘gone well.’ You can feel your confidence improving with each one you deliver.
Then, out of nowhere, you have a shocker.