I did a 15 minute presentation today, to my psych hospital's board of Trustees on Concurrent Disorders. I'm on an advisory committee to the board, and on that committee's steering committee which is how I got picked to do it.

I'd rehearsed it a lot with a timer, so I was bang on in my timing, and I managed to do it without notes.


The board really got engaged, and kept me for an additional 15 minutes of questions and discussions, which according to the staff person who was with me, has never happened before. So they clearly liked it.

I feel really good, and as soon as I started talking, my nerves stopped, and I just had fun doing it.


I'm really happy with how it went.

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