Public Speaking Fear

Public speaking is something that strikes fear into even the most stout hearted, well rounded and sensible person and it is nothing to be ashamed of. There is a very large percentage of the population with public speaking fear.

Public speaking fear usually comes from thinking about what you will be doing – speaking in public, addressing an audience and frankly people with public speaking fear don’t seem to even consider the size of the audience that they might be speaking in public to.

People who have a real public speaking fear can be worried about just speaking a little louder in a public place let alone speaking in public to tens, hundreds or thousands of people in a hall or auditorium. It is just the fear of first being under the scrutiny of a number of people and secondly the actual act of having something to say in public.

If you have public speaking fear it means that you are sadly missing out on so many pleasures. The opportunity to get your point across, to make people laugh and most importantly to share your experience or knowledge in public with others.

If you suffer from public speaking fear it is possible that your career will suffer considerably because you won’t be as well favoured as others who may not be as qualified but are ‘heard’ more often.

Happily public speaking fear can be overcome in a number of ways. Probably the most important way to overcome any public speaking fear you might have is to believe in yourself, start to listen to what you have to say and recognise that you make sense and in fact a lot more sense than most of the people around you. Then start to tell others your ideas and watch your confidence grow until your public speaking fear has vanished.