From the course: Overcoming Complexity
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Controlling the fear
- Apparently, the only thing that people fear more than death is speaking about public. And I can attest to that. I will never forget the way I felt just before I gave my first major speech in public. You know, when I was invited to do it a couple of weeks out, I was fine. But as the day got closer, as the event got nearer, I became, well, unbearable to my friends and family. You know that familiar feeling when you're about to address something you're fearful of, you start to feel nausea, that feeling in the pit of your stomach, you wake up in the middle of the night, the cold sweats. Well, as we got closer to the, they amplified and I remember swearing blind that I would never, ever, ever accept an invitation to give a public speech again. Luckily for me, the event went, okay. And even then logic would say, Richard, step away, this clearly isn't for you. But you know, I've been reading about something called the law of…
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