Words

- [Instructor] We should refrain from using … too many words on our slides. … Words should be used sparingly. … Your audience has a simple choice. … That is they can either listen to you … or they can read your slides. … They can't do both. … So slides like this distract, at best, … and at worst, lead to things like cognitive overload … while we try and process … these different streams of information. … And it's exhausting. … What do we do when we're exhausted? … Exactly, we go to what I like to call sleepy bo-bos. … Even if we look we're watching, … inside we're probably thinking about anything … other than your message, … because to be honest, you are hard work. … It's true, and slides like this after often read out … by the presenter, which is worse and means … that the audience already know what you're likely to say. … So why are you even there? … To me, it also says that the presenter … is most likely unrehearsed, … unprepared, and uninvested. … I'm sorry, but it's true. … …