I hate presentations. I get nervous spells 70% of the time, and it happens when (one or more of the following):
- I’m not prepared enough
- When I’m mentally exhausted (especially since I’ve been programming and programming these past few days)
- When it’s one of those days where I experience speech deficiency problems (also influenced by the lack of sleep)
- Whatever reasons that are there but that I can’t remember right now (cos I’m brain-dead at the moment)
The worst thing about presentations is when I have to explain things into detail. It’s not that lack the ideas, it’s just that when I talk in front of everyone, I have this tendency to forget what I want to say. The only way to overcome this is by practising at home what I want to talk about during the presentation. I simply can’t slip into the position of speaker as easily as I would like.
The 2 presentations I had to give this week were disastrous for me. On Tuesday, my Business module presentation, I got nervous for a variety of reasons and though I’m not completely inclined to talk about it on this blog, one of the reasons I shall mention was the lack of sleep. In today’s presentation, well though I presented most of the points I wanted to speak about, I think I sounded more nervous than ever. Firstly, this subject New Media Art is something that really isn’t what I’m used to doing. Secondly, I’ve been having a nasty sore feeling in my throat these few days because I haven’t been sleeping well. Thirdly, it’s the lack of sleep again.
