Feeling Anxious When Speaking? Watch this

5 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video by TJ Walker offering practical advice to reduce anxiety about professional speaking. Walker identifies a common source of anxiety—fear of boring the audience—and recommends focused preparation: select a few interesting, memorable ideas, practice with examples and stories, and rehearse until the presenter themselves finds the material engaging.

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How do you reduce the anxiety you feel when it comes to communicating in professional environments? Well, step back and ask yourself, what's the source of this anxiety? Chances are you're anxious because you're afraid you're going to bore people and it's not going to go very well. Guess what? That's a real concern. It makes sense. It's logical to be anxious about that. The solution is to prepare the right way. Figure out what are just a handful of ideas you have are really going to be interesting and memorable and useful to that audience. Now prepare your speech in a different way. Practice your presentation, giving examples, telling stories, and watch it until you get to the point that you find it interesting. Once you do that, you're going to be excited to speak anywhere and everywhere, any professional environment. You can.