What do you call a fish with no eyes?
Fsh!
What else is happening?
She's killing it!
I can't follow this act
What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?
I can't do this
- Still no idea
what do you mean you can't do this?
it's too overwhelming
Look at all these people here
Oh! I don't want to be here.
I want to be a home
You're gonna be fine!
Really?
Yeah
How
i'm gonna show you, and YOU
In 5 steps how anyone can overcome the fear of public speaking!
Who are you talking to?
Never mind them. Let's focus on you.
Let's start with some breathing techniques
and you guys as well, if you're practicing for a public speaking event,
use these techniques, follow along with me
Who are you talking to?
Shh
Just breathe with me
Look if you breathe like that it's gonna make you all panicky
It increases your stress levels increases your adrenaline
It's rubbish
What we want to do is breathe from the lower part of your body
Breathe from your diaphragm. Imagine the whole bottom part of your body is filling with air
and release all the air out of your system
and you can do this three times, four times,
as many times as you need, in order to feel comfortable
Is there someone out there?
Breathe in for four
And out for four
Feel more relaxed?
yeah calmer
The most important thing is to know your subject
Research your subject as best as you can
Do you know everything there is to know about it?
If someone has questions about it could you answer those questions?
I mean for example, Brian, you're a comedian!
Do you know your jokes?
yeah
Are you excited about them? Are they funny to you?
Yeah yeah
That's all that matters
If you're interested in it, your audience are gonna love it
Okay
Find a passion in that subject, learn to love it!
If you enjoy talking about it, it's gonna make it much easier to talk about in public
I've got the script
That's great but look
When you're practicing a speech
it's better not to have a script where you have to memorise every single word
it's better just to have bullet points
You know which pieces of information you have to give
The words which you use in order to explain those points
are not super important
it's the message that counts
Remember it like you're telling a joke for example
I am telling a joke
Exactly
So what if I forget my lines or I can't remember...
...what I'm saying?
Don't try and be perfect
Everyone in public speaking makes mistakes and that's fine
if you skip a line or if you make a mistake,
don't worry it happens
you can always come back to that part later in the speech
and don't apologize for making a mistake
there's no shame in correcting yourself
Have you practiced over and over again until it feels natural?
Yep
Practicing until you can't fail
until it's impossible to forget
This is key to feeling more calm and more confident about your speech
before delivering it
Just remember people want you to succeed
no one here wants you to fail
well what about those two over there at the bar just chatting to each other?
Don't worry about them in every audience there's gonna be people bored,
asleep, on their phone, people that just don't want to be there
You can say whatever you want,
you're still not gonna get some people in the audience's attention
Okay your body language, I mean how are you planning to stand onstage?
Well...
I mean no you you're gonna be...
shit
Try to be open, a bit loose, that stage is yours!
feel free to move around
Show how confident you are!
and look, sometimes...
You can take a strategic pause
Taking a strategic pause can make you not only seem confident
but it can also give you time to think about what you're going to say...
...next
And finally: Eye contact
You don't want to be looking at everyone in the audience in the eye
that's kind of creepy
Where am I looking then?
There's this really great trick that you can use
once you're on stage
don't look at people in the eye
just look just above their heads
that way it still looks like you're interacting with the audience
but you're not
and you feel a bit more relaxed and confident about it
Who are you talking to?
It doesn't matter.
Are you ready? you ready to go on stage?
Yep!
You're gonna be amazing!
Go get em, tiger!
Okay!
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