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How to Conquer the Fear of Public Speaking

Theo Tsaousides Ph.D.

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This is a ‘look at and discuss research findings’ day for the BLOG.

This article offers some very useful general tips to get the fearee (new word creation from me) started towards becoming a confident speaker.

Here is my summary with paraphrasing and some additional comments.

This should bot be surprising.

Have you read any other of my BLOGS here?

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There are six factors listed that have been targeted by researchers:

- relaxation (learn how to relax your body)

- change the way you think about public speaking, and yourself

- focus on communication rather than performance (hold this thought!)

- preparation, rehearsal (coming back to this one too)

- seek out more opportunities

- call in assistance.

I disagreed with #3 — at…