Contents

What is 5Things?

Thanks so much for considering doing a talk at 5Things.

<aside> 🎉 5Things is a morning meet-up where 3 speakers share 5 key takeaways from a non-fiction book.

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<aside> 🎉 It’s a fun and supportive wee community, made up of folks with a growth mindset and a hunger to learn as much about a broad range of topics.

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<aside> 📎 Wanna take part? Email Andy or Sally and let them know.

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Past Sessions

The best way to get a feeling for 5Things is to have a quick peek at a couple of past sessions.

January 2022: Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel S.F.Heller

December 2021: It’s About Bloody Time by Emma Barnett

December 2020: Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro

January 2022: Social: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect by Matthew D Lieberman

<aside> 📹 All the recordings can be found here.

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About Your Talk and On The Day.

📕 Choosing a Book

Well, that’s the easy bit. The only criteria is a book that you’ve loved. A book that’s made a real difference to your life. Very few topics, if any, are off-limits.

Your 5 Things

I think the best “things” are personal. What about the book made an impact on you, on your life. If you can, and feel comfortable, tell a story of how this thing made a difference to your life.

Some of our past speakers.

Your Talk

Your talk should be around 10 minutes, but no sweat if it’s shorter or longer. Sometimes it’s hard to fit a whole book into 10 minutes. Sometimes you might wanna keep it all tight and toasty.

Your Slides

We work from one slide deck on the day, so no need to put together bespoke slides. There are two key components:

A brief summary of the book
The 5 things (these can be supported by imagery if you like – but it’s by no means necessary)

If it makes it easier for you, you can just message me your summary and 5 things and I’ll get them into the slide deck.

Here’s the slide deck from March 2021 to give you an idea of what’s expected

On the Day

The event kicks off at 8am, it’d be great if you could join the call at 7:50, so we can say hi to each other and do a quick tech check
We normally have time for a Q&A. I remind people that you’re not necessarily subject experts, so please don’t feel the need to be.
Have fun! Everyone’s rooting for you :)

Here’s a list of (most of) the books we’ve covered so far.