I. Core Teaching
Groups follow tone before truth. Cadence is jurisdiction: your timing becomes the metronome others unconsciously obey.
- Tempo Rule: Rushing is a script. Slow enough to own silence.
- Delivery Rule: End sentences clean. No trailing volume or nervous laughter.
- Recovery Rule: If cadence breaks, don’t restart—continue sealed.
II. The Audience Dissolve // When Perception Stops Steering Pace
Presence without audience is the hinge where performance dies and authority begins. The room’s imagined judgment loses all leverage the moment your nervous system stops pacing itself for approval.
- Tell: you over-explain, repeat yourself, or add soft laughs after sentences.
- Correction: breathe once, lower the shoulders, let one full second pass, then finish the thought with a clean period.
- Field Check: does your pace change when eyes turn toward you? If yes, slow until their gaze adjusts to you.
- Micro-Commitment: “I deliver once.” If they feign confusion, you repeat shorter once—then stop.
“When there is no audience in you, there is nothing to play to.”
III. Drills
Half-Beat Gate: Add a half-second before answering any question for 24 hours.
Three-Line Read: Read three lines out loud at a slow, even pace; refuse to restart if interrupted.
Period Lock: Practice ending a statement with full stop—no filler words after the period.
IV. Probe Counters
- “Huh?” → Hold silence, look calmly, repeat once (shorter), then stop.
- “You’re serious.” → Gentle smile; no defense. Cadence is the answer.
- Fast staff cadence → slow even more; answer only once.