If you’ve seen any of my presentations, you can leave your thoughts here, as well as any suggestions for future talks! Thanks in advance.
“Score 5/5 David was great. Loved by all guests. If anything, he caused me problems because all the guests wanted to see him, but couldn’t due to other activities…Let’s get him back soon” (Cruise Director, Fred. Olsen, 2018)
“A great speaker who brought strong attendance and also added welcome humour” (Entertainment Manager, P & O, 2019)
‘An outstanding speaker’ (Entertainment Manager,P & O, 2019)
‘Made the cruise for us’ (Guests, P & O, 2019)
‘Attracted a full house which is rare for a speaker!’ (Entertainment staff, P & O, 2021)
‘More people came to his talks than some of the shows!’ (Entertainment Manager, P & O, 2022)
‘I’ve never seen a Guest Speaker get a standing ovation before!’ (Guest, P & O, 2022 )
Superb talks. Probably the best we’ve experienced in 20 years of croozing (sic). Right up there with Holland America Line and Fred Olsen. Hoping you turn up on more ships! Said awesome complimentary stuff on the feedback thing, too. Thank you. (Guest, P & O, 2022)
‘One of P & O’s best speakers!’ (Entertainment Manager introduction, P & O, 2023)
‘David is honestly one of the best speakers we have seen aboard ship, facts presented in a humorous manner that keeps your attention.’ (Guest, P & O, 2023)
‘When they moved the speakers out of the theatre into the Playhouse, people were queuing for an hour to make sure they got a seat to see David, and there must have been fifty people standing at the back.’ (Guest, P & O, 2023).
‘The talks were the best on the ship, edging even Dr Smith and his polar bears!’ (Guest, Cunard, 2023)
‘I’ve never seen a full house at this time before!’ (Entertainment Host, Cunard, 2023)
‘Quite honestly, the best speaker we’ve heard in 40 years of cruising’ (Guest, P & O, 2023)
‘One of the best onboard speakers ever!’ (Guest, Cunard 2024)
thehairypsychologist 
My wife and I very much enjoyed your series of talks on QM2 this week. They interesting, informative, amusing and we planned our days around ensuring we could attend them. They were a definite high point of our Atlantic crossing. Hopefully our paths will cross again.
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Many thanks for your kind words – appreciated.
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Hello David.
I’ve just attended all your presentations on Arcadia. It tickled me to read your blog knowing that I was in the audience. Your presentation style was so entertaining and engaging. I’m a teacher so a good judge I believe;)
I’m also training to be a counsellor so of course learning more about psychology was fascinating. I’m also a part time philosopher and still contemplating our homework ‘is the mind in the brain?’ I think that was the question. I’m so intrigued as to know your thoughts?
Thank you so much for all your thought provoking material, your humour and shared wisdom.
Hope you’re settling back home nicely.
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Thanks for that Janine – it’s appreciated. My thought on the mind/brain debate is it’s like asking which part of the motor bike makes the noise? Wasn’t built for that reason but it happens. Each time we find out what causes a ‘mental’ illness, we call it an illness – like epilepsy. One day maybe, we’ll get rid of the phrase ‘mental illness’ altogether…
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Really enjoying your talks on @QM2 … fun and user friendly explanations
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Thanks – appreciated!
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Hi. Thanks for thoroughly brilliant lectures on QM2. Made me realise that focussing on assessment made me miss the wider applications in psychology.
Cheer. Michael.
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Very much enjoying the talks this week on Britannia. The tag between you and Stickler today was brilliant bring both perspectives together. Well done
Clare
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P&O Aurora Northern Europe/Scandinavia – May/June 24
we’ve just listened to your final talk ‘why eye witnesses get things wrong?’ (Or whatever it was called but it was something like that…observational skills aren’t my forte as you can tell but I DID clock the gorilla and 16 passes!)
just wanted to say that we loved all the talks you gave, so informative and also enjoyable. The camaraderie between you and Paul was especially entertaining! I really wish I’d had a teacher like you at school; that made a subject interesting but fun.
I hope we get to see you again!
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Just attended all your and Paul’s talks on Aurora (Baltic).
Thoroughly enjoyed all of them and they gave much food for thought.
Thank you
Anita Myatt
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Dear David,
Aurora. 18/5/24
Both my husband and I thoroughly enjoyed your thought provoking lectures. We liked your style and your delivery. We learned so much about how our brains work (or don’t work effectively as the case may be!) and for me I will definitely challenge my thinking in future and try not to rush to judgment about anything.
I was astounded by your lecture on the recall of memory after a crime, that was amazing. The case of Ronald Cotton and his forgiveness afterwards was absolutely incredible. Thank goodness things have changed.
We really enjoyed Paul’s lectures too and we thought you were a great double act.
We think the lectures on the cruise added so much for us, yours, Paul’s and Olivia (art) they were all excellent. Thank you. If you didn’t catch the art lectures check out The 25 Greatest Art Heists of all time and 10 Facts about Banksy’s Di Faced Tenner stunt – both really interesting.
I hope your wife has acquired some unusual wallpaper on her travels.
We hope to see you all again at some point soon.
Fiona Perry
Royal Tunbridge Wells
Formerly Wallsend
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Very entertaining and enlightening, on board QM2. Didn’t realize so many things were subconscious and things we’re not aware of . Would love your thoughts on the A6 murderer, who I gather was executed and many thought he was innocent, but ultimately DNA proved him guilty in the end. Sometimes the “innocent” are guilty after all.
A Canadian
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Hi David! Thank you so much for your inspiring talks during our time on the QM2. I didn’t think that I would go on holiday and take so much work back with me! I have taken on board your ideas about Daniel Kahneman’s ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’ and have, consequently, created a complete PD day for September based on your ideas. (Thanks David- could have been a whole lot easier!) Anyway, if any other KS2 teacher were also to get inspired, I would happily share my presentation. Many thanks, Emma Singleton
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Hello David,
I wanted to relate an incident on the QM2 Voyage to Brooklyn (July 21st). At your lecture on reliability of witness statements you wanted us to rate how similar two images of a person were. I thought you were rude because I scored 7 and you suggested specsavers. It was only later I realised that your scoring system was 1 to 7 rather than 1 to 10. I think this is funny because it relates to your comments about how we have inbuilt assumptions. In my case, regardless of what you said, I had an inbuilt assumption that the scoring system was out of 10.
Kind regards,
Stewart
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