A good friend of mine who worked at Goddard Space Center suggested I give a lecture there. 

I eagerly wrote a speech about many of the themes you have read about here. 

After I wrote the speech, I found out that the colloquia at the Center are not just lectures by leaders-in-their-field, but are about leadership itself. 

The tone of the speech was to be like a college commencement address. 

I didn’t fit in.