From the course: Managing Your Anxiety While Presenting
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Future impact of speaking in public
From the course: Managing Your Anxiety While Presenting
Future impact of speaking in public
- Will I get the job? Will I get a good grade? Will people support my idea? These are common fears we have when we communicate. In fact, whenever we communicate, we have goals. And the fear of not achieving those goals drives a lot of our speaking anxiety. We're worried about a negative potential future outcome. If we can somehow reduce our focus on that potentiality, we can actually be much more comfortable and confident. So allow me to share with you two ways of addressing that future fear. The first has to do with contingency planning. Planning for those things that make you nervous. So if I'm afraid that during a webinar my system will crash, there're things that I could build in advance that if it were to happen, I could invoke that would help me manage that situation. So I might have two systems running concurrently or I might have two separate Wi-Fi providers that I can switch between. By knowing that I have a…
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