AUGUST 8, 2025
The Embarrassing Truth About Great Speakers
The Uncomfortable Practice That Makes Perfect Speakers If you had the chance to go back to your old high school and speak to the students, what would you say? A few weeks ago, I was invited back to The Potomac School to speak to a room full of several hundred high school students about my best tips for success and public speaking. Capturing the attention of a room full of 14 to 18 year olds was a bit intimidating. This was not my usual audience. My moment of anxiety about the session felt fit
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How It All Started
A Short Backstory Of This Blog
This is a blog about non-obvious ideas. Originally launched on the Typepad platform in 2005 as the Influential Marketing blog, the stories at first focused mainly on digital marketing while Rohit worked at Ogilvy Advertising. In 2015 Rohit officially rebranded to the Non-Obvious Insights Blog and published his WSJ bestseller Non-Obvious. For the past twenty one years, this blog has coined new terms, introduced future marketing practices and inspired the next generation of non-obvious thinkers and marketers.
