Speaking In Public Does Not Have To Be Frightening
Speaking in public is very difficult. There is a myth that the average person’s number one fear, greater than the idea of death itself, is public speaking. This is complete malarkey. It’s actually pretty humorous that this platitude ever gets said in public at all. When this platitude is scrutinized even in the most modest of manners it falls apart. If any person were given the option between immediate and instantaneous death and speaking a few words in front of fifty thousand individuals I am certain the vast majority of people would say hand me the microphone!
There’s a variety of tricks of the trade to make publicly speaking a bit easier for the average speaker. One such piece of advice is to pick out just a handful of men or women distributed throughout your audience, and in lieu of moving your eye gaze around quickly and at random to speak to just those select men and women. This makes it so that you’re narrowing and limiting the amount of people your mind feels that you are speaking to.
Consider yourself forewarned, however, one of the challenges inherent with public speaking is that people don’t feel that they have as much of an obligation to pay attention. If your individuals you’ve chosen out of the herd appear obviously sleepy, just be sure to remember that out of the larger collective there absolutely will be at least a few individuals interested in what you’re telling them. Perhaps those are the people that still have enough caffeine in their bloodstream leftover from earlier in the day.
Another often forgotten tip is to speak loudly! Often folk get up in front of their audience and completely lack the boldness to yell. When you stand up in front of your audience and speak publicly I want you to roar like a lion. Remember this phrase: “I will roar like a lion on the hunt.” It is deeply irritating for the audience to have to try and fail to listen to a presenter that’s got no idea whatsoever what the appropriate volume is to present at when talking to body of people. If the volume issue persists people will eventually lose interest, and you’ll have to suffer through very sleepy stares.
The final tip is the most critical. It’s the most common component people neglect altogether and suffer the consequences thereof. Do make sure to rehearse your presentation to the point of nauseousness (ad nauseam). Every ounce of real suffering you pour onto yourself prior to your speech in the form of repeatedly re-rehearsing your speech will pay off in spades when you don’t stand up in front of your audience and lose your ability for speech.
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February 11, 2011 | Posted by Ralph Lowe
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