do people learn from other people's mistakes?
1 Comments Published Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 11:18 pm
we've had a whole string of presentations for NCT tutorials this week, pretty interesting -- if i were to be nice and bland about it. i mean, the topics are cool, we've got holograms, instant messaging, bluetooth, digital music, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology... any kind of up-and-coming technology, you name it, we've done it.
for some reason i hate listening to presentations. it's a pet peeve thing (another one to add to the list). my main reason (for hating to be an audience of a presentation) is that my class hasn't really got a strong presenter everyone likes to listen to, myself included.
every presentation we have had to make or to listen to, i've always tuned out for the most part. i know this isn't fair to my classmates, but i don't expect them to listen to me either. the saying goes "do unto others what you would have others do unto you" and i live by it strictly. i think it's the only thing i can be religious about.
perhaps i should provide a reason.
my classmates make a lot of funny idiosyncracies, for one thing. we've got people who keep repeating "i mean", "in the sense that", "like, urm, like", "you know", etc. etc. etc. it is kinda grating on your nerves because then you start to notice more of those overused words rather than the presentation content itself.
and another thing, unprofessionalism ticks me off more than anything else,
like not knowing answers to questions and being very obvious about it a la sticking your tongue out,
or putting a checkered tie with a striped shirt (hello, obviously they clash right?),
leaving buttons open when they need to be closed,
wearing ill-fitting clothes,
sending secret messages to group members like "oei! you forgot to mention blah blah blah!!!",
looking at the ceiling and not the audience,
not knowing how to pronounce a word or a name and being very conspicuous about it,
i could go on forever.
you know what's the worse that could happen? that i make one of these mistakes during my own presentation tomorrow. lol.
for some reason i hate listening to presentations. it's a pet peeve thing (another one to add to the list). my main reason (for hating to be an audience of a presentation) is that my class hasn't really got a strong presenter everyone likes to listen to, myself included.
every presentation we have had to make or to listen to, i've always tuned out for the most part. i know this isn't fair to my classmates, but i don't expect them to listen to me either. the saying goes "do unto others what you would have others do unto you" and i live by it strictly. i think it's the only thing i can be religious about.
perhaps i should provide a reason.
my classmates make a lot of funny idiosyncracies, for one thing. we've got people who keep repeating "i mean", "in the sense that", "like, urm, like", "you know", etc. etc. etc. it is kinda grating on your nerves because then you start to notice more of those overused words rather than the presentation content itself.
and another thing, unprofessionalism ticks me off more than anything else,
like not knowing answers to questions and being very obvious about it a la sticking your tongue out,
or putting a checkered tie with a striped shirt (hello, obviously they clash right?),
leaving buttons open when they need to be closed,
wearing ill-fitting clothes,
sending secret messages to group members like "oei! you forgot to mention blah blah blah!!!",
looking at the ceiling and not the audience,
not knowing how to pronounce a word or a name and being very conspicuous about it,
i could go on forever.
you know what's the worse that could happen? that i make one of these mistakes during my own presentation tomorrow. lol.
Good luck for your presentation. I hate them.
Hugz,
BOSS