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I've never realized how hard it is to speak publicly until I had to do public presentation. I was so stressed I rushed through the material and I was taking to
by ajuc 11y ago
I've never realized how hard it is to speak publicly until I had to do public presentation.
I was so stressed I rushed through the material and I was taking too shallow breaths, too rarely. 20 minutes into presentation I had to make 5-minute pause just to catch some air, I was literally exhausted by talking :)
Few people from our team (programmers, ui designers, testers) had presentations, and we all learnt a lot. It's surprisingly hard.
- dpflan 11y agoWhat was the presentation on? Was it a subject matter you know very well? How have subsequent speaking opportunities gone?
- Nimitz14 11y ago...did you not learn how to do presentations in school?
- eitally 11y agoMost people don't. Not that they don't give presentations in school, but they are absolutely not either graded or coached on presentation skills, only on content (since most of the time it's presentation of a research project).
- ajuc 11y agoWe don't really have presentations in Polish schools. Well, maybe now, I've heard on the new college graduation exam (matura) there is sth like this, but when I was in school I didn't have to do any presentations. Usually it's either written exam, test, or oral exam (more like interview than presentation). Also (at least for me) - presentation to friends is completely different thing - I've been active in students club and made a lot of courses (we had this exchange - everybody taught others about his hobby) - it's completely different experience to give a speach for a few friends over a beer, and in huge hall to dozens of strangers.