How People React To The Environment

“Hell is a half-filled auditorium.”

—Robert Frost

Anyone who has ever presented in a big room or auditorium that is only half filled or less will agree with the quote above from the poet Robert Frost. Take the same presentation and the same presenter and put them in two different environments, and you will have two (sometimes very) different experiences. Both the speaker and the audience can be very affected by the environment in which the presentation is delivered.

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