20. People Learn Best in 20-Minute Chunks
When I am coaching and mentoring people on presentations, I almost always recommend that they watch some TED talks. If you aren’t familiar with TED talks, go to www.ted.com and watch some. These are short talks by accomplished people in their fields. Most of these people don’t earn their living making presentations, but all of the presentations are very interesting. You can learn a lot about effective presentations by watching TED talks.
What’s interesting too about TED talks is that most of them are 20 minutes long. I think that’s one reason why they are so effective. These same presentations stretched out to an hour might not be quite so brilliant.
In fact, it turns out that 20 minutes is an ideal amount ...
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