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A crucial part of being a big-shot is getting
invitations to give talks at conferences. Invitations do not come from
heaven; they need to be manufactured. Here are a few techniques.
- Organize a workshop and invite
other big-shots that you know are organizing conferences in the near
future; this is part of your obligation to the big-shot network - they
will reciprocate.
- Invite yourself.
- Hang out with an even bigger shot, and take the fallen fruit.
- Accept all invitations that you do get (but if its inconvenient, feel
free to give it by telephone). Do not feel obliged to produce
a new talk; you were not invited because of the perceived quality of the
talk you might give, you were invited because you are a big shot. In
any case, the audience will expect you to repeat your standard talk.
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