There are a lot of myths around speaking and even more around the techniques. Stage fright is a one of the favorite topics for techniques that mostly have been given birth at a writer’s desk rather than being the essence of experience. What is stage fright anyway?

Stage fright is nothing more and nothing less than insecurity.

If you feel insecure,

1. How to overcome the fear of speaking in public

2. How to write and deliver great speeches.

Both attempts focus around techniques. They are well intended receipts, cook-book like laundry lists of ingredients and more or less good description on how to put all that stuff together to come up with an edible meal.

Yet, if you want to be a cook you don’t start with reading receipts but with developing a love for your area of expertise.

Think about it, have you ever heard about someone that was exceptional in his area without deeply loving what she does? I haven’t. If you want to be successful and a top professional in whatever you chosen to become your profession you need to have a deep love for the subject or you eventually will fail.

Without passion for what you do the pain of learning and repeating the required skills eventually will become paramount and stop you before you achieve the heights of true professionalism.

So, this is not an article for someone that wants to learn how to prepare fast food, but for those that might have a hidden desire to become great speakers.

If you want to become good at speaking, you need to have a desire to become good and a passion for your subject matter. No technique ever can replace that. It is a prerequisite and techniques are the ways you do it.

There are a lot of myths around speaking and even more around the techniques. Stage fright is a one of the favorite topics for techniques that mostly have been given birth at a writer’s desk rather than being the essence of experience. What is stage fright anyway?

Stage fright is nothing more and nothing less than insecurity.

If you feel insecure, y

Both attempts focus around techniques. They are well intended receipts, cook-book like laundry lists of ingredients and more or less good description on how to put all that stuff together to come up with an edible meal.

Yet, if you want to be a cook you don’t start with reading receipts but with developing a love for your area of expertise.

Think about it, have you ever heard about someone that was exceptional in his area without deeply loving what she does? I haven’t. If you want to be successful and a top professional in whatever you chosen to become your profession you need to have a deep love for the subject or you eventually will fail.

Without passion for what you do the pain of learning and repeating the required skills eventually will become paramount and stop you before you achieve the heights of true professionalism.

So, this is not an article for someone that wants to learn how to prepare fast food, but for those that might have a hidden desire to become great speakers.

If you want to become good at speaking, you need to have a desire to become good and a passion for your subject matter. No technique ever can replace that. It is a prerequisite and techniques are the ways you do it.

There are a lot of myths around speaking and even more around the techniques. Stage fright is a one of the favorite topics for techniques that mostly have been given birth at a writer’s desk rather than being the essence of experience. What is stage fright anyway?

Stage fright is nothing more and nothing less than insecurity.

If you feel insecure,

Without passion for what you do the pain of learning and repeating the required skills eventually will become paramount and stop you before you achieve the heights of true professionalism.

So, this is not an article for someone that wants to learn how to prepare fast food, but for those that might have a hidden desire to become great speakers.

If you want to become good at speaking, you need to have a desire to become good and a passion for your subject matter. No technique ever can replace that. It is a prerequisite and techniques are the ways you do it.

There are a lot of myths around speaking and even more around the techniques. Stage fright is a one of the favorite topics for techniques that mostly have been given birth at a writer’s desk rather than being the essence of experience. What is stage fright anyway?

Stage fright is nothing more and nothing less than insecurity.

If you feel insecure,

So, this is not an article for someone that wants to learn how to prepare fast food, but for those that might have a hidden desire to become great speakers.

If you want to become good at speaking, you need to have a desire to become good and a passion for your subject matter. No technique ever can replace that. It is a prerequisite and techniques are the ways you do it.

There are a lot of myths around speaking and even more around the techniques. Stage fright is a one of the favorite topics for techniques that mostly have been given birth at a writer’s desk rather than being the essence of experience. What is stage fright anyway?

Stage fright is nothing more and nothing less than insecurity.

If you feel insecure,

There are a lot of myths around speaking and even more around the techniques. Stage fright is a one of the favorite topics for techniques that mostly have been given birth at a writer’s desk rather than being the essence of experience. What is stage fright anyway?

Stage fright is nothing more and nothing less than insecurity.

If you feel insecure, you start fearing. If you feel unconfident, you start fearing. If you believe you will fail – if you still have the concept of failure in your mind – you start fearing.

Nothing special with stage fright though. And because stage fright is just another fear, the cure is the same as for any other fear.

Get confident, get passionate, built self-esteem.

How do you get confident? Know your outcome and have a plan to go from where you are to where you want to be.

Translated to a speech that means, know what you want the audience to learn, have a good knowledge about the topic you are going to talk about and have a clear, precise map (your script) about where to start, where to end and what to say in between.

If you have these basics in place, your confidence will be as high as possible and you managed to eliminate the first reason for stage fright, lack of confidence.

Ok, but how can I get passionate about my topic you might ask? Well, if your topic doesn’t excite you how can you belief it might excite someone else?

Unless you find something exciting about your topic you won’t convey your message anyway. Bottom-line is, if you don’t have to share something exciting don’t share it, don’t deliver a speech on it.

The good news is that there is something exciting in every topic. Just look long enough, change the perspective, increase the frame, be curious and you will find something you can become passionate about.

Now, we are confident and passionate but still there is one major reason for stage fright left.

Little self-esteem.

This is a hard one