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1. “Hi!”

2. This is John Medina.

3. This is John Medina.
He’s a doctor.

4. He likes to
study these

5. So h e wro te this

6. He wants to tell you
something about your...

7. presentations.

8. “ Toss your PowerPoint
presentations.
”
– Dr. John Medina

9. Why??

10. “
It’s text based, with six
hierarchical levels of
chapters and subheads –
”

11. all words.

12. Whic h means...

13. it takes a long time for your brain...

14. to process all of those slides!

15. Aaaagghhhhh!!!

16. You know,

17. on second
You know,
thought...

18. don’t toss your presentations...

19. Burn them!!

20. You heard him.

21. BURN your current
PowerPoint presentations.

22. Then make new ones.

23. Better ones.

24. Visual ones.

25. Ones like these.

26. :-)
Ones like these.

27. :-)
It will make him happy.

28. See??

29. More importantly...

30. it makes your It’s not hard to do.
brain happy!

31. It’s not hard to do.

32. Just start with these 2 tips.

33. 1

34. use less text

35. 2

36. use more images

37. Wait...

38. Is that all?

39. YES!

40. It really is
that
simple.

41. You can make slides like these...

42. You can make slides like these...

43. Look like these...

44. Look like these...

45. You can turn
DULL slides

46. into
Slides
for your
Brain

47. BrainSlides

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