Opinions and the Twitter Age

I just want to comment how often bits and pieces of what someone has to say are taken out of context due to our ever increasingly smaller attention spans and willingness/ability to process.

We focus on what we want. We take away what suits our preconception. We take what we want from what is in front of us. How many of us actually read an Op-Ed in a Newspaper or online before deciding whether or not a Headline properly encapsulates content?

I digress to remember how I was taught to do a presentation; it applies to standing at the podium on the daïs just as much as it does to the written word.

• Tell them what you are going to tell them
• Tell them
• Tell them what you told them

That's too much for some. But in that light:

Yesterdays takeaway from the 2019 Masters:

• Tiger Woods won Sunday in a way he never won a Major before. 
• He came from behind. 
• He won like Jack used to win.
• He got a lot of bad information and direction along the way.
• He has recognized limitations of age and won staying within them.
• The fact that he changed the way he thought is most impressive.  
• I never thought he would.

I'm going to try to use the three steps more often. I have been mis-represented far too often.