The Secret To Better Presentations: Sleep!

There is all the people who tell you to do something to become a better presenter, to build a personal brand. On the other side of the fence, there are people who ask you to pause, to slow-down and to observe. You were made to believe that it’s best to go! go! go! But there is beauty and peace in stopping and smelling the roses.

I started reading a book called, “Why We Sleep”. While it has NOTHING to do with presentations or personal branding, it has a lot to say about personal development. One part that made me think and pose is the relationship between sleep and creativity. And boy! Is there a strong connection between presentations, personal branding and creativity!

How can sleep improve creativity in presentations?

1???Bizarre Algorithms — Apparently, while your deep asleep, your brain starts creating the most distant, obnoxious associations of information you read while awake.

2???Problem Solving — Oh don’t we all want that? Your sleeping brain will put things together to improve your problem solving ability for that one data slide you were disparately looking for a better way to present.

3???Memorification — Is that even an English word? Sleep will help you selectively forgot or remember things that you experienced or learned during the day, just like an a la carte menu.

Moral:?While everyone is trying to convince you to read that article, post that quote or share that video, I am here to encourage you to slow the ef down. I used to be the person who thought going at the speed of light is the only way to achieve things. I learned last year that the only way to finally meeting myself is slowing down, self discovering and getting LOTS OF SLEEP!

“A final benefit of sleep for memory is arguably the most remarkable of all: creativity. Sleep provides a nighttime theater in which your brain tests out and builds connections between vast stores of information … REM sleep and the act of dreaming have another distinct benefit: intelligent information processing that inspires creativity and promotes problem solving.” — From Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker (read my review here)

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