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“If you and your slides are saying the same thing, one of you is not needed.”
― Akash Karia, How to Design TED Worthy Presentation Slides: Presentation Design Principles from the Best TED Talks

“three days after a presentation, most people only remember approximately 10% of what they heard. However, if you add a picture, recall shoots up to 65%.”
― Akash Karia, How to Design TED Worthy Presentation Slides: Presentation Design Principles from the Best TED Talks

“The secret to achieving your goals is to take daily action towards them. Do one thing every day that brings you closer to your goal.”
― Akash Karia, How Successful People Think Differently

“If I could leave my audience with only one single key takeaway message, what would it be? If my audience was to forget everything else I said, what one single idea or lesson would I want them to remember?”
― Akash Karia, TED Talks Storytelling: 23 Storytelling Techniques from the Best TED Talks

“The three-second rule states that your audience should understand your slide within three seconds of seeing it.”
― Akash Karia, How to Design TED Worthy Presentation Slides: Presentation Design Principles from the Best TED Talks

“The answer is that when people do something nice for you, you feel obligated to do something for them in return. This is the rule of reciprocity.”
― Akash Karia, Persuasion Psychology: 26 Powerful Techniques to Persuade Anyone!

“People are hardwired to listen to stories. Stories are the way human knowledge was passed down before the written word. Storytelling is hardwired into our brains. It’s the natural way that our brains learn and process information.”
― Akash Karia, TED Talks Storytelling: 23 Storytelling Techniques from the Best TED Talks

“One of the easiest ways to become likeable is to demonstrate similarity with the target person.”
― Akash Karia, Persuasion Psychology: 26 Powerful Techniques to Persuade Anyone!

“the best speakers on the TED stage were the ones who had mastered the art of storytelling.”
― Akash Karia, TED Talks Storytelling: 23 Storytelling Techniques from the Best TED Talks

“EMOTIONAL HABITS The 7 Things Resilient People Do Differently And How They Can Help You Succeed in Life and Business”
― Akash Karia, NOT A BOOK: Emotional Habits: The 7 Things Resilient People Do Differently

“starfish story” - the one where a man walking along the beach sees a young boy throwing starfishes back into the ocean. When the man tells the boy, “Why bother? There are so many starfishes you can’t possibly make a difference,” the boy picks up a starfish, throws it back into the ocean and says, “To that one, I made a difference.”
― Akash Karia, TED Talks Storytelling: 23 Storytelling Techniques from the Best TED Talks

“She makes the task of cleaning up her house more enjoyable by turning it into a game. She keeps a record of how long it takes her to clean her house and uses a stopwatch to beat her previous time. It sounds strange, but it’s a creative way that works for her!”
― Akash Karia, Ready, Set...PROCRASTINATE! 23 Anti-Procrastination Tools Designed to Help You Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Things Done

“When trying to overcome temptations, successful people think “I don’t” instead of “I can’t” Successful people don’t think about what they don’t want. Instead, they think about what they do want. Instead of suppressing negative habits, successful people focus on replacing them. Instead of vaguely thinking about what they would like to achieve, successful people write and shareSMART goals Successful people use “if-then” thinking to achieve their goals. Using “if-then” planning triples their chances of achieving success. Successful people commit themselves fully to their goal and take daily action to achieve it Successful people use the five-minute technique to overcome procrastination. “To-go” thinking keeps successful people motivated so that they can achieve their goals Unsuccessful people think that achieving their goals will be easy. Successful people are confident in achieving their goals but realize that the process of doing so will be difficult. If you want increase your chances of achieving your goals, be a realistic optimist. Successful people don’t just visualize success. They also think about and prepare themselves for the difficulties they will encounter. They visualize themselves persisting even when things get rough. Successful people think of failures as part of the process of achieving success. Instead of shying away from failure, they give themselves permission to fail. Doing so allows them to still stay motivated even when they do fail. Unsuccessful people think that their abilities and intelligence levels are fixed. Successful people think that they can improve themselves through hard work. Unsuccessful people look at criticism and failure as a negative judgement of their abilities. Successful people, on the other hand, view criticism and failure as opportunities for improvement. Successful people are successful because they make a conscious choice to adopt the above habits, attitudes and thinking processes. Success is not an accident - it is a choice.”
― Akash Karia, How Successful People Think Differently

“The one thing that all great TED speakers have in common is that they are master storytellers.”
― Akash Karia, TED Talks Storytelling: 23 Storytelling Techniques from the Best TED Talks

“Resilience (or resiliency) is our ability to adapt and bounce back when things don’t go as planned. Resilient people don’t wallow or dwell on failures; they acknowledge the situation, learn from their mistakes, and then move forward.”
― Akash Karia, NOT A BOOK: Emotional Habits: The 7 Things Resilient People Do Differently

“Your Opening Should Create Questions in Your Audience’s Mind”
― Akash Karia, Public Speaking: Storytelling Techniques for Electrifying Presentations

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” Carl W. Buechner”
― Akash Karia, Own the Room: Presentation Techniques to Keep Your Audience on the Edge of Their Seats

“suppress”
― Akash Karia, How Successful People Think Differently

“IN A NUTSHELL Analyzing the effect a presentation has on you is a fantastic way to learn what works and what doesn’t when it comes to public speaking. If you don’t grab your audience’s attention within the first thirty seconds, your audience will mentally tune out of your presentation. Don’t bore your audience with introductory remarks. Begin with a story. Stories are powerful because people are hardwired to listen to stories. Stories take your audience on a mental journey. Audiences cannot resist a well-told story even if they try.”
― Akash Karia, TED Talks Storytelling: 23 Storytelling Techniques from the Best TED Talks

“Small habits, as the name implies, are those habits that are so small that they take very little willpower to carry out and thus make achieving them very likely.”
― Akash Karia, The Habit Project: 9 Steps to Build Habits that Stick

“Keystone habits are habits that have the power to transform other areas of your life without necessarily paying attention to those areas. For example, people who have developed the keystone habit of exercise sleep better, eat healthier food, have more patience, and spend less money. Now”
― Akash Karia, Small Habits + Keystone Habits = Big Results! 10 Power Habits That Take 5 Minutes Per Day & Guarantee Rapid Results

“For example, if you have the urge to eat ice cream, use the “I don’t” strategy from Principle 1 and say to yourself, “I don’t eat ice cream.” Then, immediately begin focusing on a replacement because what you focus on gets stronger. In this case, you might begin focusing on eating a bowl of sliced fruits instead. Every time you get the urge for ice cream, replace it by eating a bowl of fruits instead. Over time, your negative habit will”
― Akash Karia, How Successful People Think Differently

“People who are emotionally resilient are able to use this to their advantage by looking for the positive intention behind the negative emotion they’re feeling. They dig deep and discover the signal—the message, or intention—that the emotion is sending them. Like a detective, resilient people ask, “What is the true purpose of this emotion?”
― Akash Karia, NOT A BOOK: Emotional Habits: The 7 Things Resilient People Do Differently

“People make decisions based on emotions, and then justify their actions using logic.”
― Akash Karia, How to Design TED Worthy Presentation Slides: Presentation Design Principles from the Best TED Talks

“The bottom line is that charismatic people make the space they inhabit a better place to be simply by being there.”
― Akash Karia, CHARISMA: 34 Tricks to Unlock Your Charisma, Master the Art of Small Talk and Develop Personal Magnetism

“A recent study on the correlation between resilience and key health and productivity measures found that resilience is the foundation of success and possibility, with high levels of resilience significantly correlating with better health status; higher job satisfaction, morale, and productivity; and lower stress.”
― Akash Karia, NOT A BOOK: Emotional Habits: The 7 Things Resilient People Do Differently

“Positive-message stories are inspiring. They leave audiences on an emotional high. Negative-message stories are instructive but they leave audiences on an emotional low.”
― Akash Karia, TED Talks Storytelling: 23 Storytelling Techniques from the Best TED Talks

“The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.” This means choosing joy over sorrow, strength over weakness, or hope over despair. Every living person has a choice, and no behavior is dictated solely by circumstance.”
― Akash Karia, NOT A BOOK: Emotional Habits: The 7 Things Resilient People Do Differently

“Most great speeches repeat a catch phrase several times throughout the speech so that audience members will remember the main message of the speech.”
― Akash Karia, Public Speaking: Storytelling Techniques for Electrifying Presentations

“Remember it is far easier to develop small habits than it is to make major lifestyle changes. You are far more likely to succeed by adding a minute or two of exercise to your routine than you are if you try to commit to an hour of gym a day. Set goals that are so small that it is impossible to fail.”
― Akash Karia, Small Habits + Keystone Habits = Big Results! 10 Power Habits That Take 5 Minutes Per Day & Guarantee Rapid Results