Presentations - Blessing or Curse?

You've all been up there - standing in front of a crowd of people, each and every one of them training their piercing gazes onto you, our protagonist. For this reason, lots of people find presentations difficult, preferring to write up a 26-page report about the ethics of football trading card production. There are of course more photogenic people, who take the spotlight that is cast upon them and make the best out of a tough situation.

With every argument comes rampant, uncontrollable factionalism, and this one is no exception to that rule, with each side branding the other as "weird", almost like two alien species locked into a vicious stalemate, throwing every possible resource or diplomatic threat at each other.

For me, presentations are a blessing from the heavens, the diamond in the rough of our awful school system. Presentations give me the opportunity to organize thoughts into "orderly chaos" → where the information of the slideshow is marred with the smokescreen of poorly thought out jokes I conjured up on the spot.

While making a presentation visually appealing always helps give the audience a clear view of the content, I've always found making your presentations look as chaotic and messy as possible a better way to keep the audience's eyes peeled on your slideshow. You've also heard of the people who have the bright idea of making their presentations both impossible to read and follow, each slide having the equivalent of a fully-fledged research paper plastered out in miniscule font, making you squint to just make out words.

Although presentations take up a lot of time, you've got to admit that they're much more efficient at bringing knowledge from you to the audience, and that's why we shouldn't shy away from them - if you need to present something, go and put on a show for the rest of us!