How to Make Your Boring Lecture Exciting

A good presentation doesn’t sound like an Excel spreadsheet. It sounds like a fairy tale.

Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler
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2 min readFeb 7, 2020

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A man gives a lecture to an auditorium full of students.
Photo by Miguel Henriques on Unsplash

Why do all fairy tales begin with the phrase “Once upon a time…”?

The answer is relevant for anyone with experience in public speaking: If we present hard facts within familiar narrative patterns, the listener becomes…

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Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler
Forge
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Mikael Krogerus is freelance journalist and an editor with Das Magazin. Roman Tschäppeler is the founder of the consulting and multimedia firm Guzo.