Lecture ‘Yourself’

I received some very useful advice -- perhaps critical advice -- from a US music professor when I started lecturing in seminary last year. I forget her exact words, but she said something like this: You are, above all, lecturing yourself to the students. It seems hard to put into words, but you need to expose yourself, and you need to let the lecture flow through you, the medium. If you focus too hard on the lecture itself, as an ideal, you can't keep the pace. OBSERVATION: So last night, I prepared the medium -- me -- for writing a lecture this morning. This morning, I took 90 minutes to write a 90-minute draft -- 5,000 words of text, plus extras. Of course that's just a draft, and I'll need to return to it.