The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: The Real Deal Behind The Reality Distortion Field

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Stick to the rule of three. A Steve Jobs presentation is typically divided into three parts. The Rule of Three is one of most powerful concepts in dramatic writing—how many times have you seen a “two act” play? The human mind can only retain three or four “chunks” of information and Jobs is well aware of this principle. He even has a lot of fun with it. During Macworld 2007, he teased the audience with “three” revolutionary products: an MP3 player, a phone and an Internet communications device. Of course, he really only had one device—the iPhone.

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Carmine Gallo is the author of The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs. He is the communication skills coach for the world’s most admired brands, including IBM, Nokia and Chase. He writes a weekly leadership and communications column for BusinessWeek.com. More about Carmine Gallo at his Gallo Communications website.

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nak
Why do you refer to yourself in the third person?
Dylan
Very good post. Was a great read. Thanks!
Johnny
Interesting article to read. Thanks.
http://twitter.com/chas_martin Charles Martin
I recognise and appreciate that hits = $ so I understand breaking this up over several “pages,” but geez louise ELEVEN PAGES?? That’s just money-grubbing, sorry. Six would have been about right.
Shenanigans like this actually hurt the story (just check Digg comments any time a story not from Ars Technica goes over half-a-dozen pages) by losing “busy readers” and by annoying faithful readers. It also makes me question the motivation behind presenting the story — am I really going to get some useful info if I stay with it, or am I just being used to drive up the hit count and will end up with an unsatisfied feeling at the end?
Better editorial judgement about how long you can string readers along, please …
Matt
I agree with the above post. I’m afraid I skip these articles with so many pages because it’s too annoying to have to keep clicking from one page to another.
D
The problem is that if you try to copy steve jobs “reality distortion field” your audience would not think:
-Wow that guy is great at speaking!
Instead they will chuckle to themself and think:
-Wow, that guy thinks he’s Steve Jobs. What a looser.
J
Meh, Jobs is good, but he’s no Billy Mays.