Henna Pryor

These are all things that can be trained.

And then the relentlessness is the world is changing fast.

It requires a bit of constant reinvention.

And so I think there's a lot of levers that successful long game keynote speakers prioritize that are not just personality and charisma alone.

That's where the true difference lies.

Oh, how many?

How much time do we have?

Many.

There has been times, especially towards the beginning, where I completely missed a main point from a slide.

Like I completely skipped a section or I mispronounced something horrendously and something inappropriate came out of my mouth.

More times than I can count.

But John, I love what you said about the improv training.

So chapter eight of my book is about using improv principles to learn to get better at tolerating and embracing awkwardness.

You cannot avoid an awkward moment.

You cannot.

To avoid an awkward moment means having a crystal ball and knowing exactly what the future is going to bring, knowing exactly how another person is going to react, knowing exactly how that day is going to unfold.

If someone has cracked that code, share it with the class.

Good luck.

We don't know that.

What we can train, though, is the ability to, as improv would say, take what's handed to you.