You can streamline technique and technique can be a path to strengthen presence but you can’t streamline presence.
So when you copy someone’s presence you are reproducing technique, not presence.
Presence trumps technique.
»» And this isn’t to undermine technique. Learning new tips and tricks and moves and best practices is vital. But it’s easy to think those things are going to (quickly) change the feel of the air that surrounds you when you walk into a room or onto a stage. You can’t trick your presence.
