PART TWOSTEAK

THIS PROFESSION is about intellectual firepower. You must become an object of interest to others, which means that your own interests must constantly grow and expand. Too many speakers are giving the same speech they gave 20 years ago, crying at the same place and telling the same story and laughing at it. The problem is that if you ask them a question, they have to start all over again.

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