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Know Ten Times More Than You Intend To Say - Quote

Know what you do intend to say about ten times more fluently than you need to.

"Know Ten Times More Than You Intend To Say
And know what you do intend to say about ten times more fluently than you need to. That gives your mind room to relax, and frees up cognitive bandwidth to devote to strategy and rhetoric in real-time. Need to speak for five minutes? Be able to speak for 50. Need to read it three times to be able to deliver it smoothly? Read it 30 times. "

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