What do you if I F***ed up a presentation?

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This week, Susie was asked, ‘What to do if I F***ed up a presentation?’

Well, this one is easy, pack your bags, change your name, get a new passport, and get yourself a one-way ticket to Pitcairn Island and be the island’s 57th resident. You can fly to Tahiti, then to Magareva (there is one flight per week), get on a boat to Rikitea, and hop on to Claymore II which sails once every third month. After only 32 hours you will arrive at Pitcairn Island, where you can sit by the blue waters and replay the f**k up in your head endlessly in a loop…..

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Maybe, just maybe, hear me out on this, 

Unless you have offended someone or given out incorrect information, you DO NOT have to do anything. If you have done either of the aforementioned things, pick up the phone/write an email, apologise, and stand corrected.

It is NOT as bad as you think it is. You had unrealistically high expectations from yourself and you feel you fell short of them. There you go, this will help - 

1. You are 1 in 8 billion on the planet - As cold and brutal as it sounds, you are not that special and no one is thinking about you 24x7 ( not even your parents). There are 8 billion other people on the planet, you are not the first one to f**k up and you won’t be the last. So yes, at some point, we all f**k up. 
   
2. Give it time - Yeah, up close it feels like the embarrassment you feel now will not ebb, but you will not feel this embarrassed tomorrow and by the end of the week, you would hardly remember it at all. Would it still bother you after a year? If not, then don’t lose sleep over it. We are living in 2023, there are enough ways to distract yourself, go pick one up - distract yourself till you no longer feel embarrassed.
   
3. Don’t take criticism from people you would not seek advice from - Take negative feedback that you respect and feel is useful. Don’t take criticism from people whose advice you would not ask for. 
   
4. Your harshest critic is you - Remember when Taylor Swift sang, ‘It’s Me, Hi, I am the problem, It’s me’.  The presentation did not tank. It went way better than you think it did. Next time do better. Be more prepared. Stop kicking yourself and move on. 

P.S. Grise fiord, Tristan da Cunha, The Kerguela, and  Macquarie Island are some other far-flung, hard-to-reach, good-to-hide-locations. If any of these places see an uptick in the number of visitors thanks to this blog, we would love to work with their tourism departments as the official publicity partner.

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