&gt; Finally, I realized not even students were too invested. When my best friend visited my campus to give a talk, he observed one of my lectures. I&#x27;ve got many shortcomings as an academic, but lecturing isn&#x27;t one of them. I&#x27;ve been on TV, radio, podcasts — you name it. By professor standards, which admittedly aren&#x27;t that high, I could rock the mic. But while my friend sat there, semi-engrossed in the lecture, he found himself increasingly distracted by the student in front of him.  That student, who like all in-state students was paying $50 per lecture to hear me talk, was watching season one of Breaking Bad.<p>Well, a lack of investment by students is a plausible interpretation. Another is that the OP isn&#x27;t as good at lecturing as he likes to think.