Reasons for Fear of Public Speaking

[wimaowo]

My advice is to practice.

And my question to your fears is, " so what?"

It's all internal, you just have to come to terms with the fact that each of your fears has no consequence save for some embarrassment, to which you ask yourself, so what?

[Paris Love]

Originally Posted by scarletpeaches

Fear of making a mistake and people laughing at you.

With me, I decided the best cure for my fear of public speaking was to do it anyway. So I did. It didn't kill me. (I think.) And now I'm not scared any more.

Of course I still get butterflies, but they're closer to excitement than fear.

This! The adreline rush after nailing that presentation or talk or speech is better than any drug invented by man.

I'm kind of hooked on the attention I get when presenting in public now. Sure, there have been dreadfully bad and embarrassing times, but I draw upon that experience to make my fiction writing better. Basically, I never see any experience as negative if it can help me to connect to readers later.