Carmine Gallo wrote a book revealing Steve Jobs’ presesentation secrets. Impressive. He goes into great detail with documentation, examples, descriptions.

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

Steve Jobs uses lots of photos, few words. I KNEW THAT. Look at every kid’s picture book. What’s not to love?

(For those in Rio Linda and my gamer forum - Steve Jobs is the founder and CEO of Apple Computers. Apple makes the iPod and iPhone. Steve is a MAC, not a PC.)

Carmine says that Steve Jobs reels you in. He TRICKS you. He turns ordinary into extraordinary. Makes you laugh.

Like, for example, when Steve presented the iPhone. He started with 3 new amazing astounding products. THEN, he said, “These are not 3 devices. These are just one. The iPhone. Get it?”

I think it’s the “get it,” that got it.

Carmine calls this a “holy smokes” moment.

Steve Jobs knows how to create short Twitterful headlines. Brief belief. I mean, if it makes a great tweet, it’s a great headline. Right? Right. Steve KNOWS. He tweeted before Twitter even was twat.

Steve does real good bad guy good guy stuff. Slay the dragon, whomp on the villain. Like, the PC.

Steve will even whup on society in general. Like the lady who threw the sledge hammer against the giant screen. But… have you ever noticed that your average Apple store looks like the futuristic androgynous society in that Apple commercial? Hmm.

Steve doesn’t let you get bored. Carmine describes how Steve demonstrated the iPhone by calling Starbucks right from the convention. When Starbucks answered, he ordered 4000 lattes for the audience. “Just kidding,” he said.

Dang - Steve even makes me want a latte.

Steve sells dreams, says Carmine. Like, making the world a better place. The iPod wasn’t just a Music Storage Device. The iPod made the world a better place. It enriched your life. Yeah!

Carmine’s book is a must buy. I’m reading it. Presenting like Steve is Gooood. Good for business.

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

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Steve Jobs delivered the following quote of his commencement address to the graduating body at Stanford University in 2005.
 

“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

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To be honest, I always had another dream. It’s always in the back of my mind… a little simmering pot of fantasy stew.

It’s too big and grand a dream for the likes of me. I simply didn’t have the ability or will to follow it through.

But, it’s still there, like a little piece of diamond in the rough lodged in the recesses of my heart. 

I don’t know if I’ll ever pursue this dream. There are too many other… obligations.

But, perhaps the greatest obligation of all, is to be true to ourselves.

Perhaps we should go for our dreams. And those who love us, will follow.

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I lost my verve there for a while. But, in my case, conflagration of my soul and certain happenstances of life spurred me on to new heights (and lows) of feverpitch endeavorship.

I now burn and churn with frenzied purpose and drive.

I snap and turn like a ravenous wolfling cub in a in a pack of fat caribou. Life is thick and rich with possibilities.

Life is “super-charged.”

As Steve Jobs quotes from The Whole Earth Catalog -“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”

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It is when most hungry and foolish, that i’ve had those moments in the sun.

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One more quote from Mr. Jobs regarding his being fired from Apple -

” The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

He was once again, hungry and… foolish. 

And as they say, the rest, is history.

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Steve Job’s Commencement Address

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