Today I completed a Presentation Skills course.

We were supposed to be 15 but ended up as 8. The fewer the better — and here that's doubly true, because in the two presentations each person prepared, almost everyone made some kind of mistake. It was enormously valuable, partly because watching yourself gives you distance so you can see how you react to questions, what you're doing and how…

Towards the end we watched speeches by speakers who can serve as role models. And none other than Steve Jobs and Hillary Clinton. Personally I prefer Barack Obama's speeches, though Steve Jobs has his own magic too.