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If you want the attention of a crowd, speak at 10am. Any earlier, the night people won't be well-rested. 11am, the morning people become hungry for lunch and
by blt 7y ago
If you want the attention of a crowd, speak at 10am.
Any earlier, the night people won't be well-rested.
11am, the morning people become hungry for lunch and impatient.
After lunch, anyone who overate will be sleepy.
By the time everyone's digested their lunch, the older morning people are fading for the day.
10-11am is the golden hour.
- newsbinator 7y agoThis is surprisingly poorly understood by everyone from consultants and sales people to speaking coaches. It doesn't matter what you say or how you say it (within reason) if you're battling against your audience's metabolism the whole time.
- scruple 7y agoMy favorite is half-day or all-day meetings where they always plan out 10 minutes for a break every hour and it just slips and slips. You end up being lucky if you can get 10 minutes of an "official" break in a 4 hour window. I've taken to just getting up and walking away for my 10 minutes. I have to piss. I need a coffee, or some water, or just the opportunity to go and breath some other stale air in some other corner of the office (I work full-time remote, so it's generally my own stale air, but the point remains). How is this lost on so many people? It strikes me as being so basic and so obvious and I feel like I invariably end up looking like an asshole because I can't sit in a chair and listen to people fill a volume of space with their words for 2 hours straight.
- B1FF_PSUVM 7y ago> people fill a volume of space with their words for 2 hours straight. And those are the run of the mill self-lovers. Real pros like Fidel Castro and others of the ilk could go solo for up to 7 hours. (The other day heard from someone who attended one of those speeches. Not a happy memory, for some reason.)