Timeline for Is having your hand in your pocket during a presentation bad?
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| Oct 2, 2019 at 14:20 | comment | added | Dmitry Savostyanov | For me, "Be yourself" and "Just be yourself" sound very different, with the latter sounding very much like "Don't be bothered". | |
| Oct 2, 2019 at 5:29 | comment | added | lalala | @HugoZink It is terrible advise if taken too literally, but great advise if taken with a pinch of salt. The opposite of 'beiing yourself' means 'trying to act', and actor which didnt have 3 years of full time acting training are even worse to watch. What one shd do is to gently improve beeing oneself. | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 22:36 | comment | added | Crowley | Guys, have you read the rest of the answer from the second sentence on? Playng somebody you are not is worse advice. Do a dry runs, ask more expirienced ones for advices, practice on removing bad habits. It is "Find what is good and incorporate it into you" advice to me. Be the best yourself you can be. | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 14:24 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @Hugo: well, it at least assumes that "yourself" is adequate. | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 9:18 | comment | added | Hugo | "Just be yourself" is terrible advice in almost any social situation, not just presentations. It assumes that "yourself" in the natural state of being is the best possible fit for the situation. It rarely is. | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 15:54 | comment | added | Dan Romik | Sorry, but “just be yourself” is terrible advice in the context of giving presentations. Giving a good presentation involves many subtle and not always intuitive nuances of behavior, body language, posture, intonation and lots of other things. Those things come naturally to some people and don’t come naturally to a lot of other people, who therefore need to actively try to not “be themselves” in order to improve their presenting skills. | |
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| Sep 29, 2019 at 13:15 | history | answered | Doug T. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |