This is why most speakers are boring and leave the crowd snoring. All learning is state based. You have passive states and you have active states. Most speakers out there leave the crowd in a passive state, meaning they just throw information at them. There’s no crowd interaction. There’s no call back to them. There’s no waving their hand. There’s no nothing. It’s like school. That’s why they’re bored. If you want to become a stage master and keep them in an active learning state, here are a few ways that you can do it. The first thing you can say is, “Does that make sense? Say Yes! Or “Wave at me if you’re picking up what I’m putting down.” I don’t know what it is, but once you get the crowd interacting, you take them from a passive state to an active learning state. Because, the truth is, everybody wants to do what everybody else is doing. If you get everybody doing the thing you want to do, they’re going to be in an active learning state. Don’t be a boring speaker. If yo...