Haritosh Srivastav talks about bombing a presentation in 2008 when he finished in 15 minutes instead of the planned hour. He reflects on his poor communication skills at the time and makes the case for constantly working to get better at public speaking.
I have been a rock star from day one. I never bombed in my presentations. I never failed to impress my audience. Hello friends, my name is Haritosh Srivastav, and the statement I just said is a complete lie, complete false statement. As with many of you, when I started my corporate career, I had a very humbling experience, to say. It was back in 2008. I was working for an internal product in my first corporate job, and my manager asked to deliver a 1-hour presentation to a large audience. He trusted me, so I went there, gave an hour presentation in 15 minutes. Yes, I was that fast. Let's just say it was one of the worst presentation ever. Worst presentation Ever. While I was thinking my manager would— should praise me, he gave me some good advice to work on my presentation and communication skills. So that was my humble beginning. I'm still learning, and I hope you all are still striving to learn more about presentation skills because it's a journey. And you never reach the destination. Thank you. God bless you all.
