How to learn from valuable experiences
Earlier last week, I was attending a Debate Competition. My first, and I had reason to believe that I would perform wonderfully and raise myself a couple of notches in the context of public speaking and confidence. However, unexpectedly I performed so poorly that I would have cringed upon watching it. My topic was changed last minute and I had to redo all of my research while waiting for my turn to debate. I could blame it, but I should rather have a passive meditation on it on what exactly went wrong. Keep reading, you might learn something valuable too. I took some time before the day of the debate to research the topic I was allotted, and I managed to make a 1000-word research and a one-minute speech to give in my 10-minute debate. Oh, and there were 3 people other than me participating in this same 10-minute debate. So I had reason to believe that I was well off, and well prepared. The only reason why I wasn't that scared to participate was that I was a MUNer ( A person who a