The one audience member with the loud and/or bizarre laugh.

I recently had an opportunity to speak at an event that featured numerous presenters, including me, and we had such a person.

That can be disorienting for a speaker, and it's certainly annoying to the rest of the audience.

Its practical effect, apart from how jarring it is to everyone, is to suppress laughter from the rest of the audience. People go to laugh, and the loudness of the one guy stops them cold.

This is one of those times when you don't want to stand out, "be yourself," or break the (implied) rules. This is one of those times when you want to blend in, and conform to social expectations.

At the same time, it's important to know when the rules need to be broken, because when it comes to careers, conforming to social expectations has set millions of poor souls up for disaster.

The expensive educations aren't generating the returns people expect, to put it mildly.

And the complaints are piling up from people who say their job is soul-crushing: unreasonable demands, arbitrary rules, incompetent people promoted over them, an impossible boss, the whole thing.

Meanwhile, we have technology at our disposal that our ancestors would have killed for. Can it be the path to liberation from misery like this?

I'll tell you this:

Spend three days by my side, and I'll take you by the hand as we build you a business of your own, together, that you can run from your devices.

Three intense days, and it's done.

Here's how:

https://www.tomwoods.com/breaktherules

Tom Woods