WHAT'S YOUR GREATES FEAR IN PUBLIC SPEAKING?

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I have some experiences of speaking in front of the public. The recent one is speaking as a coordinator of a division for an event, where you need to report the progress in a big forum. I’m surrounded by friends whom I know well, well some are not really. Still, I felt nervous. I doubted myself a lot and was afraid if I’d say something stupid and embarrassed myself (lol). What I’ve done to overcome that fear was focusing on myself and what I'd say, not on what people would *possibly* think of me. It’s necessary to think of others’ reaction but try to think only the positive ones I guess? I also assure myself that what I say is needed to be said.

I think the most important thing is to find what roots the fear first, find the exact problem of what really causes the fear. I’m sure people will find a way after that.

The greatest experience I've ever had is when I was in Junior High School. I was recommended by my English teacher to join a story telling contest. I was pretty shy then when it comes to something that I have to speak in front of a lot of people plus I have to act based on my story. when I standing on the stage, suddenly I got a bit blank and messed up my story.

Fortunately I got Through to the next section of the contest and got some advice from my teacher. She told me that it would be good if you think or imagine this as when you have a practice at school.

I always have anxiety when it comes to public speaking. I will feel nervous and even forget what I want to say or have prepared. That's what I fear most, to be speechless in front of others. When I was in high school, I braced myself to join a speech competition (I don't think I was thinking straight at that time. It's like I did it unconsciously). So, I had prepared everything. I practiced for a week. Then the day came. I did a lot of mistake. My mind was so blank and I only could deliver the half of my speech because I ran out of time. That was so embarrassing. Since then, I don't want to join any speech competition. For now, I think I've been able to overcome my fear to speak in public, but only in one occasion, like doing presentation in class or just speaking in front of my classmates. I can't imagine myself speaking in "bigger" public.

Because I still can't fully overcome my fear of speaking in public, I don't have tips to share. The only thing I want to say is just be yourself.

I had a pretty severe problems with presenting something to the public back when I was a high school student. One day I had to perform in a choir and my feet would no stop shaking even after the performance. Presenting my work in the class was not an easy things either. I tended to stutter when I had to do something in front of public. In college, my fear is still there but it is not that bugging to me. If I get nervous, I tend to play with my fingers but thankfully it is not that obvious to the audience. Sometimes, I will go with my dad to practice my public speaking. I guess practices really help with your confidence, and of course it needs time to get used to it.

I have a story when I was in junior high school. I had to do story telling for a competition. I had been practicing everyday, so I was sure that I could do well. However, the reality did not go as I expected. Suddenly I couldn’t think about what I had to say. Freeze...

I think, I spoke without coordinating with my brain, it was flowing as my practice before. Actually, I don’t really know how I call that situation. :”)

You (it should be me) might be have to take a deep breath before start to speak in front of public and try to get your confidence.

At first i feel nervous, anxiety, and forget what i want to speak. I can't speak when people is watching me. I am speechless. Back when i was in Junior High School, i wanted to be famous. So, i joined Student Council Organization. Fortunately, i became the candidate of the Student Council President. Each of the candidate must spoke in front of the people and showed their goals. I didn't know why i can spoke so fluently in front of the people. I just avoided eye contact. Finally, i became the Student Council President. After that, my teacher always asked  me to be the MC when my school had an event.

My tip is only one. Just do it. 

My greatest experience? well I used to work at an art studio where you have to present your work to client and stuff like that, one time I and few of my friend got an order from a "big" client, we do our job, no problem whatsoever, it was easy for us, but......... then came the day when we have to present it to them, well.... I can proudly say that I did a great job.... embrassing myself (LOL), my mistake is I didnt prepare my speech very well and I doubted my self a lot, I have that "medok" accent, so when I speak in English or even in Bahasa Indonesia I fear that the audience will laugh at my accent, I fear that they will focus more on my accent than my speech.

Long story short, I learned a lot from that experience, dont overthink about what audience think of you, think of them as an being inferior to you haha, seriously, focus on your speech not on the audience, afterall when your speech is so good they wont notice your appearence and your accent, maybe.

The recent experience that I had when speaking in front of public that I quite remember is when I had to speech at inauguration of some committee. I felt very nervous and shy because the audiences do not know of me and I have not known of them. In contrast, I try to channeling my fear into excitement. I think the tips to public speaking is just to prepare and face the fear try to control it and turns it to your energy. 

I had my first experience on public speaking when I was in junior highscool. It was a ceremony on monday and it will be a speech of president of student council election. I felt realy nervous because it was my first experience giving a 'real' speech. My hand was shaking when I held a paper where my speech was written. So, I decided to place my hand behind my back and didn't read that at all. I started to speak based on what I could remember. Everything was going well and only the other candidate knew that my hand was shaking because they stood behind me.

My tips is same as what Mrs. Ella said last week. We have to arrive earlier when we will have a speech or mc-ing. When I was told about this tips, I tried it. I had to be an mc in an event with more than 200 people. Because of I also be a cometee, I arrive earlier to prepare everything and I try to look around where will I stand and mc-ing later on. When the event started, I feel relaxed and I can enjoy my speech because I was there for a while and it's really help.

I have experience of public speaking. In elementary school, i won a speech contest. Sometimes become an MC in informal event. Even I won and have experience become an MC, I still not confidence and getting nervous almost every I spoke infront of many people. The problems are same with other: nervous. I will lost some my word when nervous. So, I try to solve this problem with prepare well. Then, pratice it much. Third, it will be sound odd: try to getting nervous on the back stage before stand on the stage. Look around and smile to audience. So, when I speech, I will not nervous. It is work :D

I have some trouble when it comes to public speaking because i didn't like to speak in public. I will become nervous and my palm become cold. I'm afraid my friends or the audience will laught at me. My first experience was when I'm in junior high school, I had to read the meaning of Quran and it's sudden. However, now, I cope my nervousness with think possitive and doing exercise public speaking by joining organization. I also try to feel familiar with the situation, try to ignore my audience, and prepared first.

As someone who would rather be reading a book at home than speaking in public, it took me a long time to figure how to give a good presentation despite being nervous. I'm not a good speaker, and I was very nervous. When I was in Senior High School, a few hours before I had to talk in front of people in a classroom, I got a queasy feeling in my stomach that won’t go away. I didn't want to do anything. I just wanted to cancel it, so I didn't have to deal with the stress. Actually I didn't feel comfortable with this situation. My hands got sweaty before I spoke in front of class. I felt like I want to run away. I was afraid if there’s nobody who cared about what I said to them. However, I had to do what I have to do. When I started to speak in front of class, I didn't try to make eye contact with my friends. I tried to be more focused, because I prepared it before. I tried to enjoy it. After it was done, I felt relief. Yeah, everything worked out fine.

I think before you are speaking in public you have to try to calm yourself down. Don’t think too much.