I was invited again to give a lecture in the 13th Parseh IDA Congress and I proposed to give a talk on the topic of “Prevention of Complications id Immediate Dental Implants”.
Due to number of speakers and limited time given to all I too was given a 30 min to deliver my speech. Unlike the last time which I had the whole 2 hours to talk (which is considered lengthy speech and presentation) I found this very short however I did my best to highlight the points and show the audience these pointers via visual aids and my cases.
Thanks to documentation process we have in our clinics, I realized I have much options of cases to share however the limited time made me to be choosy and just select a few. After finishing my lectures, I realized the 30 minutes for such topic was definitely too short to be able to cover everything yet thankfully I was able to deliver the message.
When I went home, I remembered a story from President Woodrow Wilson, about how long would it take him to prepare for a speech;
In 1938 a humor column called “In Lighter Vein” of the “Christian Science Monitor” newspaper printed an instance with an attribution to Woodrow Wilson that closely matched the text of the 1918 citation:
1938 May 20, Christian Science Monitor, In Lighter Vein, Quote Page 21, Column 6, Boston, Massachusetts. (ProQuest)
The Longer the Quicker
“How long does it take you to prepare one of your speeches?” asked a friend of President Wilson.
“That depends on the length of the speech,” answered the President. “If it is a 10-minute speech, it takes me all of two weeks to prepare it; if it is a half hour speech, it takes me a week; if I can talk as long as I want to, it requires no preparation at all. I am ready now.”
this shows the lesser time we have in delivering a message, the more we should be prepared for it to be exact and precise. Like each word should be chosen properly and accurately to avoid any waste of time.