How do I keep my cool giving a talk at an international conference or even impress a few people?

Letter Seven: Dear Stage Frightened Undergrad

You have no control over what people’s impression of you will be or what their threshold for ‘impressive’ is. Striving to be impressive leads you down a road of chasing external validation. Elusive validation at that. I would encourage you to shift your mindset for this talk to connecting with people.