At the same time, you’re also going to lose credibility with your audience, since it’ll seem like you’re trying to hide something from them. By the time you’re done with your presentation, they might even feel resentful toward you. Meanwhile, they’ll have thought of some problems on their own, and now you’ll be in real trouble. They’re going to ask you questions in a combative spirit, and they’ll be suspicious and critical of your answers.

So why not preempt all of this by admitting a problem upfront? The advantages are numerous. You set your audience’s skeptical tendencies at ease. You nip their criticality in the bud. You make yourself seem credible. You secure their attention. You focus them on a problem you already have a solution for. And you thus transform the problem from a potential liability into an advantage. After all, the alternative is to wait until they ask about it – and by then, you’ll have already turned them against you.

To maximize the impact of this element of your pitch, ask yourself the following questions: What problem are you most hoping your audience won’t see? What question are you most fearing they will ask?

Make that your “all is lost” moment. Get ahead of it; don’t let it come back to bite you.

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Calorie restriction means reducing average daily caloric intake below what is typical or habitual, without malnutrition or deprivation of essential nutrients.

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The Big Five personality traits

The Big Five personality traits, sometimes known as "the Five-Factor model of personality", is a grouping of five unique characteristics used to study personality. It has been developed from the 1980s onward in psychological trait theory.

Starting in the 1990s, the theory identified five factors and ten values. Each of the five factors is broken up comparatively with two of the identified values. These factors and values are as follows:

conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. extravagant/careless)

agreeableness (friendly/compassionate vs. critical/rational)