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When Listeners 🙉 Tune Out: What Expectation Has to Do With It

What happens when your pitch (or your Spanish) catches people off guard? This week, I was practicing for a business pitch competition. During one of my run-throughs, the person I was pitching to listened to my 3-minute-and-20-second presentation and said, “Well, it’s too long.” She wasn’t wrong—the pitch was supposed to be under three minutes. […]

April 24, 2025