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Public speaking.

BrettNortje

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This really scares a lot of us, including myself. if we are to have the best of the best being confident enough to deliver speeches, in this e.m.o. age where we all want to talk, but are afraid of our peers ideas of us, we stay still at the times when we need to 'deliver.' this means that we need to either make them happy to talk upon a mike, or, that they feel the duty behind what they are saying, of course.

~ actually i am trying to breed a lot of beautiful women politicians and lawyers, as, everybody will listen to them! this would mean that men would listen to them, because they want to have sex with them, or get winks from them, and women would admire them, yes?

So, if we were to grab these people that excel at something, we could observe that this comes from 'success.' this success needs to be fostered in the class room first, during early stages, and then through 'feeling strength' in some way. be this strength social or emotional, competence or even sarcasm, then this would go down well, if the person was told to stand with their eyes closed and speak, then slowly open their eyes, unless they feel they need to close them again. this would mean that the 'student' or prospective speaker need only feel their voice upon the reactions of others before they achieve this 'speaking level confidence.'
 
BrettNortje said:
This really scares a lot of us, including myself. if we are to have the best of the best being confident enough to deliver speeches, in this e.m.o. age where we all want to talk, but are afraid of our peers ideas of us, we stay still at the times when we need to 'deliver.' this means that we need to either make them happy to talk upon a mike, or, that they feel the duty behind what they are saying, of course.

~ actually i am trying to breed a lot of beautiful women politicians and lawyers, as, everybody will listen to them! this would mean that men would listen to them, because they want to have sex with them, or get winks from them, and women would admire them, yes?

So, if we were to grab these people that excel at something, we could observe that this comes from 'success.' this success needs to be fostered in the class room first, during early stages, and then through 'feeling strength' in some way. be this strength social or emotional, competence or even sarcasm, then this would go down well, if the person was told to stand with their eyes closed and speak, then slowly open their eyes, unless they feel they need to close them again. this would mean that the 'student' or prospective speaker need only feel their voice upon the reactions of others before they achieve this 'speaking level confidence.'
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I have held a lot of presentations before meetings of up to 500 people. You get used to it, when you do it every day. When you haven't for a while or have to do a speech an something you are not practiced in, you revert to nervousness again.
 
My primary weakness in public speaking comes from not feeling like I have a concrete and utilitarian endgame with my talk. If asked to speak about my education and career and I get to have a prop like a slide show, I do pretty damn well. If asked to just stand in front of people and say a few words about "oh, anything really," I bomb pretty badly. Let's just say that nobody would be paying me $250k to give a graduation speech.

The principle of the "inspirational speech" (in other words, what goes into making it work) is completely alien to me.
 
I can be great at it or suck depending on the topic. If it is about me or my kids or something I do (surfing) I can talk forever in front of hundreds. When I was a bartender and fine dining server I could speak off the cuff about anything or about menus to huge groups. If it is about some professional topic or something I don't care about I get really nervous and can't even do it sometimes I get so nervous because all I do is think about the stupid speech. It isn't even how many people... it is just being in front of them at that point.
 
I've had to give training seminars to attorneys. That's a very scary thing to contemplate knowing that you're about to go speak to people that are used to picking apart any statement someone says.

But it works out as long as you know your stuff and you have confidence. And after you get on stage, you'll get the confidence. They're there to listen to YOU because you're the teacher. You know your sh1t, right? Else you wouldn't be the teacher.

Here's a situation that's apropos to public speaking... I've jumped out of an airplane 8 times. The moment up until you walk to the door to jump out, you're absolutely terrified. But when you get outside the plane into that beautiful pristine air and are flying, suddenly everything just seems right.

Just get on stage and do it. man. It'll be ok.
 
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