If the first difficult question arrives during the real meeting, your preparation has missed something.
Knowing your material is a beginning. Preparation becomes more useful when you discover where it stops working.
Explain your idea to someone who does not already understand it. Let them interrupt. Ask them which part is unclear.
Practise the conversation you keep postponing. Say the difficult sentence out loud. Notice whether it actually communicates what you mean.
In sport, examine what happens when the familiar rhythm changes. Can you recognise the change and adjust your next action?
These moments give you something specific to work on.
“I need to improve” is vague.
“I lose the thread when someone interrupts me” gives you a task.
Now you can practise returning to the point. Shortening the explanation. Answering the question before continuing.
That is how preparation develops: you find a difficulty, understand it and work on your response.
There will always be something you did not anticipate. Certainty is never available.
But we can use practice to meet some of our difficulties early, while we still have room to investigate them.
A problem discovered in practice has given you time.
Use it.
Silvia
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