Two things about figure skating…
1.
If you’re a figure skater, a great way to keep people’s attention is…by staying on the ice.
All the chairs in the room are pointed towards the middle, the ice is in the middle of the room and you are in the middle of the ice.
The attention you keep while you’re on the ice doesn’t make you a good figure skater it just means you have attention. And if you have attention you could do something with it.
And the good ones do do something with it.
2.
And if you’ve watched any figure skating, when are the biggest best most thrilling jumps? At the end.
Because they know that if they end their performance with a quadruple axel triple cannon ball crack backer, that’ll go a long way to cover any previous short falls of the performance (at least in the audiences eyes).
The end is infinitely important, because it’s the last thing we see. It’s what we’re left with. It’s the last defining image in our minds. When we look back or think back on the event, performance, experience, we’ll remember the most recent part: the end.
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