09/03/2013
FACE YOUR GREATEST FEAR!
Have you attended meetings where you wanted to contribute and simply did
not dare to get up and be heard?
Why is it that so many people, who have worthwhile contributions to make,
avoid getting up in front of a group of people, to put their thoughts into
words? Why is it that small vocal minorities often seem to get their way?
Why is it that Toastmasters International attracts close to 170,000
members
every year? Because many people are afraid to get up in front of a group
to make a presentation.
The Book of Lists,. a U.S. publication, quotes that the greatest fear of
people in North America is to get up in front of a group of people to make
a presentation.
Many psychiatrists and therapists today seem to agree that for many people
this fear is a learned behavior that probably started during their school
years.
Kindergarten! Show and Tell! I bet you can recall several of your little
class mates who were called upon to get up in front of their class and who
left their mark...on the floor. That's how scared they were!
Elementary School. Presentations in front of the class. This was the
period when we had crushes, and the subject of our admiration was
snickering at our ineptness!
High School. How did the teacher always know the kid who had not prepared
his or her homework? Another humiliation in front of our peers!
Is it any wonder that we grow up with this negative attitude about getting
up in front of a group to make a presentation? Of course not! It is the
result of negative conditioning. We have learned that speaking in front
of a group is to be avoided at all costs, because it creates nothing but pain
and embarrassment
If you are afflicted by this fear, it might console you to know that you
are not alone.
However that does not help very much,
does it? Take courage, there are effective ways to overcome this fear.
You'll discover in subsequent articles how you can overcome your
nervousness by applying certain secrets of powerful presentations.
In the meantime, here are a few tips.
Realize that the fear is a learned behaviour that can be unlearned.
Break the speech in easily recognizable parts, an opening, body and
conclusion.
Realize that the audience is usually sympathetic towards the speaker.
In the next article we'll discuss the three main parts of a good speech.
A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT
The ability to conquer nervousness and speak with self-confidence is not
difficult to acquire. It is not a gift bestowed by Providence on only a
few rarely endowed individuals. Everyone can develop his own capacity
if he has sufficient desire to do so. (Dale Carnegie.)
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