{"id":3818,"date":"2023-02-02T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2023-01-20T14:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T19:24:46","slug":"next-slide-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/02\/next-slide-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Slide, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This one is finished. Time for the next one. It too will finish, and another one will come after it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many years ago as a much younger man, I spoke with a much older and wiser man. He was about to leave an assignment and begin another assignment. He had learned the phrase that is the title of this post. &#8220;When you are on the plane and it is taking off, you say, &#8216;Next slide, please.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Next slide, please,&#8221; is what a speaker would say to an assistant while presenting materials to an audience. These were actual, physical slides\u2014not just another electronic or virtual slide in PowerPoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This one is finished. It doesn&#8217;t matter if &#8220;this one&#8221; is a two-year assignment, a mid-term exam in college, or a meal with dishes waiting to be washed. It is time for the next one. Move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some slides (experiences) are thrilling while some are dull. There is a long list of opposites that I could write. Nonetheless, learn\u2014always optional and chosen too infrequently\u2014and move on. Regardless of the value, perceived or otherwise, let go of that prior slide. It is finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides, I&#8217;ve already presented that slide. Let&#8217;s do something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips This one is finished. Time for the next one. It too will finish, and another one will come after it. Many years ago as a much younger man, I spoke with a much older and wiser man. He was about to leave an assignment and begin another assignment. He had learned the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,389,363,20,35],"tags":[183,444,364,142,157],"class_list":["post-3818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expectations","category-experiment","category-growth","category-learning","category-time","tag-expectations","tag-experiment","tag-growth","tag-learning","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}