Every time he walked into the hall and up to the podium, the professor appeared confident and knowledgeable to his students. He would always throw in a joke here and there and knew exactly how to engage his audience in his lessons. However, he wasn’t always this way. He stumbled from time to time through his first month of teaching but soon grew more confident, and after 2 years, it showed. How did he make the switch?

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