Reddit mentions of How to Design TED Worthy Presentation Slides: Presentation Design Principles from the Best TED Talks (How to Give a TED Talk Book 2)

The first thing to understand is that there are two basic approaches:

1. Lecturing
   
2. Educating
   
   This is my problem with the school system growing up: for lack of a better word, many teachers are nerds about their chosen topic & "geek out" when explaining it. Because they have a crystal-clear understanding of the topic & everything makes sense in their heads & they have years of repetitively verbalizing it, they lecture "at' you, instead of teaching you. If I simply wanted to learn by lecture, I could just pick up a book & read it out loud to get the same effect. But I want to learn & be taught & get educated & ask questions, not just get lectured at!
   
   So the critical difference there is "excitedly spewing your knowledge" vs. "actually capturing someone's attention & explaining it in a way that hooks them & keeps them interested." There are a number of tricks to doing this, but first, let's address your core concern:
   
   >Before writing this post everything made perfect sense in my head and I was sure about what to write.
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   >now that I am actually writing it it feels like my head just wants to put it all on the screen in once.
   
   So you've stumbled across something important here: the mental-to-physical conversion muscle. Translation of a thought into reality is a hard thing for a lot of people. And not just for writing, but for any type of idea. Take an inventor, for example - you have to take a concept you have & make it work. It's said that Edison tried a thousand different ways to make a lightbulb before finding a method that worked - he knew what he wanted to do (make an electric light) but had to find the right way to express it physically (filament in glass, powered by electricity).
   
   Likewise, entrepreneurs who start their own businesses do this...they take an idea & work to turn it into a reality. What you're trying to do is no different, whether it's talking to someone in person or writing things out on a reddit post. And in fact, being charming & witty & well-organized verbally, on the spot, is an entirely different skill than when you can sit down at a computer & take your time to write out a well-thought-out post. If you specifically want a procedure for how to write out a blog post, try this method:
   
   
3. Open a new Google Document (auto-saves, so if your browser crashes, it won't nuke your writing, which is especially important on a long post)
   
4. Create bullet points & start typing up ideas you have, as many as you can think of
   
5. Re-order those bullet points in a flow that makes sense, instead of being scattered all over the place; in our minds, we can see the whole picture & the "big idea", but in words, in America at least, we read those line-by-line, left-to-right, so information is poured into our brains in a steady but linear stream. So it helps to put your ideas in some kind of logical order so they make more sense when your reader is reading them as new-to-them information. This goes back to my issue with many school teachers...it's easy to just blab about your topic & unleash your excitement on someone, but that typically doesn't hook them or teach them anything, or even really clearly convey your point or points.
   
6. Create sub-indents of data points for each topic you wrote out. If you're writing about video games, you may want to talk about Pac-Man, Mario, and Pong. If you're talking about Mario, you may want to talk about Luigi, the Princess, and Bowser.
   
7. Once you've got that core structure arranged & filled out with some sub-data points, all you really have to do is translate that to English, the way you speak it. You wouldn't just read a list of bullet points, you'd normalize it with sentence structures & stuff. So just rewrite those lines into paragraphs, exactly as if you were reading it out loud to someone & explaining it to them.
   
   I've done that process so many times that that's just how I write reddit posts now. I'm pretty wordy to begin with, but generally I try to arrange my thoughts, flesh them out, and then make them readable. It's a skill you can develop, backed by a process checklist, as listed above. Go look through my reddit posting history if you want an example. I don't consider myself an articulate person IRL...it takes me 5 minutes to come up with a good comeback, for example; I don't think on-the-spot very quickly & need time to gather my disorganized thoughts together (that is, when my brain doesn't go blank when I'm in the spotlight, haha!). Writing is actually a lot easier for me because I can think about things & give birth to the ideas instead of just randomly spouting off potshots about my ideas left & right in a way that doesn't make sense to anyone listening to me, lol.
   
   There are a ton of little tricks for improving your communication skills like that. For example, there's a show on Netflix called "Jerry Before Seinfeld", where he shows off all of the material he's developed over the years (fills up a whole street worth of paper!). He can talk about virtually any topic an audience throws at him because he's put on his Seinfeld-humor glasses & thought about each situation & written down his thoughts about it. Here's a sample clip from the show on Instagram, featuring some of his notes:
   
   https://www.instagram.com/p/BYFFfKnFKfM/
   
   A good approach to structuring your explanation involves a 5-step process to make what you're saying clear & memorable. There's a really good podcast with Andy Stanley here:
   
   http://buildingastorybrand.com/episode-122/
   
   As well as a written explanation here:
   
   https://michaelhyatt.com/five-questions-to-ask-as-you-prepare-your-speech/
   
   The core idea is this:
   
   

• What is your one-liner? What is your one key take-away? What does what you're trying to convey boil down to? What's the one thing that you want people to know here?
  
  To implement that, you ask 5 questions when preparing your thoughts:
  
  

1. What do they need to know? (information, aka your one-liner)
   
2. Why do they need to know it? (motivation)
   
3. What do they need to do? (application)
   
4. Why do they need to do it? (inspiration)
   
5. What can I do to help them remember? (reiteration)
   
   This is a great way to teach & to convey a message or a thought, because instead of bumbling around, it gives you (1) a specific topic to talk about, and (2) a 5-question structure that informs people, motivates people, teaches them how to apply it, inspires them, and helps them remember your topic.
   
   Another thing to work on is flair. A good starting place, if you're up for some reading, is a book called, "The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience":
   
   https://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Secrets-Steve-Jobs-Insanely-ebook/dp/B002Z8IWMS
   
   In his heyday, Jobs had a knack for capturing an audience, which has been widely replicated. Just look at any TED Talk out there...they use a lot of the same principles for capturing & keeping people's attention. On that tangent, there's another good book for creating Powerpoints called, "How to Design TED Worthy Presentation Slides: Presentation Design Principles from the Best TED Talks":
   
   https://www.amazon.com/How-Design-Worthy-Presentation-Slides-ebook/dp/B00FX3IMZY
   
   That author, Akash Karia, actually has several really great books for things like delivering a TED Talk, making small talk, and so on (if you have Amazon Kindle Unlimited, most of them are free to read digitally under that subscription!).
   
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