How to get over the fear of public speaking?

[blankisomeone]

Tips?

[Dauntment]

- Raise your self-esteem

- Stop/Don't give a fu*k

........done. Simple.

Unless you want to indulge in hours upon hours of "material" to "help you conquer this fear" lol?....

..But I am being very serious: Say what you have to say, then thats that. Now becoming a better speaker is a different notion entirely

[Consept]

Truth is to do as much of it as possible, accept the anxious feelings before and just do it. You cant get around the anxiety and theres no studying or tips that are going to make you not feel anxious, but if you want to do it you have to do it 

[Butters]

By public speaking. 

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[Schizophonia]

Practice.

 

[Carl-Richard]

If it's a speech or presentation, practice like you have never practiced before; get it down to every word, every move, like you're an actor in a movie.

That is what I did for my first presentation in many years back when I used to really fear presentations, and because I had practiced it so much, it went so much better than I had expected that it radically changed how I view presentations. I was actually excited to do more presentations after that.

How is that possible? One explanation is that dopamine largely works like a prediction error (actual reward minus expected reward). For example, if you expect something to go really bad but it actually goes really well, you'll get a massive spike of dopamine. In other words, if the expected reward is much smaller or generally worse than the actual reward, you'll get a big dopamine release.

So I expected my presentation to go really bad, but it actually went really good, so I got a massive dopamine spike, and dopamine reinforces behavior, which explains why I was suddenly excited to do more presentations.

Edited July 31 by Carl-Richard

[blankisomeone]

On 18/07/2024 at 6:08 AM, Carl-Richard said:

So I expected my presentation to go really bad, but it actually went really good

Nice tip 😂 I can see how it could work

[mojsterr]

On 15. 7. 2024 at 5:47 PM, Butters said:

 

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