What sort of pitch superstitions do you have?

For example I always say "break a leg" to the team, never good luck.

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I usually sacrifice a baby goat the morning of the preso

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Please ask them if they will hire me

Only positivity for the last 24 hours of the pitch. Better to instill confidence in the team and faith in the work than be changing things, even if a last-minute change might make something better.

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I call my mom the night before. Seriously.

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I prefer a science-based approach to pitch preparation, personally.

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I found that endlessly updating the pitch deck due to the unceasing, half baked, conflicting input from fly by marginally informed executives and senior partners right up to pitch time is a super valuable ritual that almost always ends in losing the work. Really great tradition, can't recommend it enough!

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Regardless of how well it went, I won’t tell anyone how well it went. If it went that well, you’ll know when they give you the business. You look dumb if you say it went well and then you lose.

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Hand write bullet point notes for each slide. Usually don’t even look at them, but just knowing they’re in my notebook makes presenting easier for me.

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My only contribution to this is the origins of the term “break a leg”.. it means to get in the cast of a show/play/etc.

You break a leg and you have to wear a cast. Ergo, the phrase is saying do a great job and get in the cast.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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But why do you say break a leg for performances as well? 🤔

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I won’t celebrate my birthday early.

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