January 2008
3 posts
Presentations
Comment left Eschew bullet points – they are there to prompt the speaker Use diagrams and pictures – people think in pictures Give handouts – That’s where screeds of text belongs. I read a paper that says one of the shuttle disasters was indirectly caused by powerpoint bullet points. A key engineering point about checking for damage was hidden in a 6 point font on a slide about 15 slides in....
Back to the Dharma
Recontacted my Dharma teacher last year after a long time of being unable to practise. It was because I was trying too hard and strained myself. He told me that it’s very common for westerners to do this: we’re taught by our education system that we have to be perfect and whatnot, instead of aspiring to be like the buddha and working with what we have at hand we think we have to be the buddha...