Comments on: PASS Summit Memories Blog Series – Day 1 – You Can Do This https://thomaslarock.com/2011/09/pass-summit-memories-blog-series-day-1/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:45:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Ayyappan https://thomaslarock.com/2011/09/pass-summit-memories-blog-series-day-1/#comment-2733 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:45:10 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=6557#comment-2733 Good start. I like the point learn while teaching.

Keep going Thomas!

]]> By: Log Buffer #236, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs | The Pythian Blog https://thomaslarock.com/2011/09/pass-summit-memories-blog-series-day-1/#comment-2732 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:44:14 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=6557#comment-2732 […] Thomas LaRock has started a blog series about some of my favorite PASS Summit memories. […]

]]> By: Thomas LaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2011/09/pass-summit-memories-blog-series-day-1/#comment-2731 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:21:24 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=6557#comment-2731 In reply to Gethyn Ellis.

Gethyn,

It was all of it. The speaker, the topic, the setting…everything.

If it helps, it was a topic I knew nothing about, which is why I was there anyway, to learn something new. So I didn’t think “i know this stuff”, it was “I could give a talk on something”.

]]> By: Gethyn Ellis https://thomaslarock.com/2011/09/pass-summit-memories-blog-series-day-1/#comment-2730 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:14:41 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=6557#comment-2730 I gathered that, and I didn’t mean to suggest the speaker was doing poorly. I was just interested in the topic and what was being discussed, and if the topic played any role in your thought process…For example Did you think I can talk about the importance of backups or was not related to the topic, more looking at the person speaking regardless of the subject and thinking you could do it? So put simply, was it the topic being discussed or the person doing the speaking that was the motivation?

]]> By: Thomas LaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2011/09/pass-summit-memories-blog-series-day-1/#comment-2729 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:08:15 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=6557#comment-2729 In reply to Gethyn Ellis.

Gethyn,

I withheld those details because I don’t want people to think that the speaker was doing poorly. It wasn’t about that, it was that I knew I could do the work, and that I wanted to do the work.

]]> By: Gethyn Ellis https://thomaslarock.com/2011/09/pass-summit-memories-blog-series-day-1/#comment-2728 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:02:16 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=6557#comment-2728 Who were you watching when you had the “I Can do this… ” moment or at least what topic was being spoken about?

]]> By: Thomas LaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2011/09/pass-summit-memories-blog-series-day-1/#comment-2727 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:59:44 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=6557#comment-2727 In reply to Scott Shaw.

Thanks for the comment Scott. That is still the biggest hump for me: know what you are talking about. But I have also learned it is OK to not know everything.

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