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Hi everyone! This is my first post and as so, I’d like to talk about presentations, especially informal ones. Two days ago I had my first “Communication Skills” class and of course we had to introduce ourselves. But what do you say when you first meet someone?

For some people this is quite easy, they start talking and talking and talking and they won’t stop unless you do something to make it so, but unfortunately, that’s not my case… Usually the conversation is about who we are, what we like, interesting things we’ve done or we’d like to do, etc… But every time I have to talk to someone new, there’s something inside me which makes my mind go completely blank and forget even what my age is (luckily I usually don’t forget my name). 

And it always happens to me (and I guess I’m not the only one) that once the conversation has finished and I’m somewhere else far away from who I’ve just met, thousands or even millions of ideas start bumping into my head about what I hadn’t said and I would have liked to say, or about a better way to say what I actually said. Well, if this also happens to you, I’d say you can write down those late-bumping-into-your-head ideas because, although it wouldn’t make sense to repeat that previous presentation, it won’t be the last one, and if you don’t do so, the same thing will happen again and again, when a similar situation comes to you. I’ve never actually done this, but I guess I’ll start doing it from now on.

I think it’s always useful to carry a pen or a pencil and something to write on in order to capture every good idea that comes to your mind. If not, you will surely forget about it.