3 days ago
How to Conquer Your Public Speaking Fears
Public speaking — and I'm going to say something radical here — is just talking. It's something everyone is doing all the time, they just worry about it when they're put in front of an audience.
Whenever there's a survey done about phobias, public speaking is often listed higher than death. What we actually fear is exposure. We view public speaking, particularly in a professional sense, as a testament to our ability and we have very binary mindsets about it. Either we do this business update brilliantly and it goes down the same way a TED Talk would, or it's a complete disaster.
