Clover
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- Jan 31, 2008
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So, I fail at academic presentations. It is absolute torture for me when a professor assigns something for me to research and then present to a group of people. Professors always say the same thing, "well, you'll have to do it sometime in your life, it's a good skill to have." Yes, there is the possibility that I might want to present something to a group of people someday, but I would hope if I felt compelled to speak to a group, I would know what I was talking about and it wouldn't be about some subject that was completely alien to me the day before. I am sure it's a good skill to develop, but I just BOMB when I have to speak in front of others, even the best laid speeches crumble when I try to give them. I can of course blame my lack of preparation, I am sure if I spent 3 days rehearsing I might be alright, but let me be honest and say I do not even think about starting up open office until the night before I must stand behind the podium.
Anyway, how do you introverts get out of your head long enough to babble about subjects you could care less about? I ask introverts because I also think one of my issues is verbalizing my ideas. I can write and think of at least passable things to say, but when I get in front of people my mind goes blank and my mouth freezes. If only they would let me read what I have written, but professors constantly say, "don't read straight from your work, imagine if all I did was read from a projector!" Well, uhm, I am not a teacher, I don't have the extensive experience that you do. I haven't repeated my lectures over and over again for the past ten years, and I certainly didn't sign up for this class to do the job you were hired for.
Any advice for an INFP just trying to sneak through college?
Anyway, how do you introverts get out of your head long enough to babble about subjects you could care less about? I ask introverts because I also think one of my issues is verbalizing my ideas. I can write and think of at least passable things to say, but when I get in front of people my mind goes blank and my mouth freezes. If only they would let me read what I have written, but professors constantly say, "don't read straight from your work, imagine if all I did was read from a projector!" Well, uhm, I am not a teacher, I don't have the extensive experience that you do. I haven't repeated my lectures over and over again for the past ten years, and I certainly didn't sign up for this class to do the job you were hired for.
Any advice for an INFP just trying to sneak through college?