In the year 2008 I had a chance to give a talk in the Tech Symposium on "Super Computing on Desktop - GPU". As part of this activity and since this Tech Symposium was the first of its kind being organized in my company, there were three mentors assigned to a group of participants. I can only remember two of the three persons.
As part of my talk I decided to start it with a story "More like a real life incident". This was not welcomed by the Mentors (I guess it was my inability to narrate it properly). But I did not like this idea. And also I did not want to argue on this topic.
On the final day, I started my talk with a story. Finally it turned out to be a good one (More from the feedbacks I received).
So much about the background, Lets get to the point. It turned out that for a new project we had a new Program Manager. This guy was a bit tough for me to understand (I don't get to choose!). During my performance evaluation, I was surprised to hear from him that he had my first impression dating from the Tech Symposium event. "He was the one whom I conveniently avoided and forgot! He is the one who advised not to open the talk with a story!" I never realized that such a small incident would carry great impacts for ones future!
This is a lesson I learnt the hard way!
PS: Later the same guy accepted that he had now changed his opinion about me after working for an year or so.
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