I'm reading a very good book about how to do great presentations through the use of creativity and approaching their creation from 'beginner's mind' (Zen phrase). It is a book intended to facilitate dramatic change of dull and boring PowerPoint slide presentations to great and beautiful presentations through simplification, clarity and brevity. One of the sections I read today comments that restrictions and limitations are not the enemy ~~ they are actually great allies. The point the author stresses is that those two are what great design develops from and/or how problems are resolved through new and novel design that observes such constraints. Also as I was reading today, the author recommended a book titled 'If You Want to Write' by Brenda Ueland (first published in 1938) that discusses her ideas of approaching writing, but that applies to most creative endeavors. One of the ideas in Presentation Zen inspired by her writing, is that it doesn't matt...