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> about my ability to speak for 10 minutes about something without notes. I'm not sure how common this sentiment is, but I would feel extraordinarily uncomfort
by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> about my ability to speak for 10 minutes about something without notes.
I'm not sure how common this sentiment is, but I would feel extraordinarily uncomfortable -to the point of feeling a bit like a fraud - if I were to speak about something continuously for 10 minutes (at a high degree of entropy, rather than just taking glancing stabs at the same observation from multiple angles) _unless_ I could do it without notes. If I could not do so I don't think I would even attempt to participate in a conversation on that subject, feeling as though I had nothing useful to contribute to the conversation.
- slowmovintarget 2y agoWhich seems... odd... to me. I've often been able to speak for 15 minutes, up to 2 hours, on topics without repeating information. It was usually in a teaching or on-boarding context. The people were engaged, nodding, laughing, taking notes... I simply knew the subject and its adjacencies inside out and backward. Ten minutes, for a subject you care about, seems trivial.
- ChainOfFools 2y agoI'm not sure I was clear, or if the manner in which I was attempting to frame my response using the context of the parent post worked the way I thought it would. But what I mean is that 10 minutes would be perhaps the approximate boundary where I feel comfortable holding the floor engaging in curious but uninformed speculation, and the sense of fraud that I am possibly wasting everyone's time by continuing to speculate begins to encroach. If I care about a subject enough I think like most people I don't have problem holding forth on it, free of supporting notes, for 2 or 3 hours if circumstances (and the extent of my command of the material, and the patience of my audience) would allow.