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Three is the magic number

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Three is the magic number

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- [Instructor] So we're conditioned to things coming in threes. Think about some of our most favorite stories, songs, and movies. "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," the "Three Amigos," the Three Little Pigs. I mean, you have once, twice, three times a lady. I surely did just sing for you, I did. Also phrases, blood, sweat, and tears, stop, look, and Listen. I mean, there's so many of these. And basically, our brains are just used to things coming in threes. We're conditioned to react and remember things that come in at three. So always remember this rule when you're making presentations. So let me show you how we can apply this rule of three to a presentation. First of all, this slide here, this was a slide full of maybe about eight bullets. And I cut it down into three main points here. So these are the three points that I think were the most important in this slide. And so what I did was I took this and then I…

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