Speaking Up Without Freaking Out | Matt Abrahams | TEDxPaloAlto 

We are. I'm literally doing a lesson on communication anxiety today, and found this video to supplement.

I do teach this! Science Communication at University of Western Australia!

You're just going to the wrong school. This stuff is part and parcel of my Drama courses, my Multimedia course, even my Business Technology course, to name the obvious ones.

first thing they should teach- not using profanity or mind-numbed placeholders for actual thought when conveying your intentions.

@@lornecooke1072 He is talking about India. The system is pathetic over there.

Thank you

Rock on Aleksa

thank you for the summary!

wow. thank you so much

Ty!

Hope it goes well 🤩 Do your best and rest will be okayyy 🌟

Good luck and congrats to ur sister, may she and her other half live happy and healthy ❤💕

you got this

I wish you luck midgardian

Wish u all the best. I hope u will do it well. May be you have done.

You said everything I was going to. He's absolutely amazing in presentation!

Truee

Harsh Wakchaure same

Same

I used to when I was in high school.

Gosh I thought I was the only one... I'm studying abroad and English is not my mother language but I need to use it to present everything... I felt so bad every time I finish the presentation thinking "I ruined it again"

@@youqifan4853 你好！我是个美国学生在中国学习！上台报告以后，用中文我也有一样的感觉。。

How did it go

scofish cheiman she passed away in class. Rip :(

@@lordwhatever3957 ...hahahaha

Legeng says she's still scared up till this day... ☺

how is it going ? and what do you feel now after 4 months from your presentation ?

Cassandra Bankson 😲😮😮😲😲😲😲😲😲🌟🐶🐱🐭

He sounds so prepared, even memorised his lines, certainly not an extempore, impromptu, off the cuff speech.

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This is awesome and I'm so grateful this exists. However, this isn't my first time watching this or any other similar videos.. yet STILL, my anxiety controls my life. For no reason my brain completely blanks at every single public speaking interaction I've ever had in my life. Working at a restaurant, going to school, meetings.. I could prepare the most perfect speech.. memorize every word for word.. but as soon as it matters my brain shuts off

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or someone about to cry mooodd

I have similar issues ,I find it helpful to find places to pause the regather my breath it’s usually that I’m hyperventilating that my voice is shaking, I’ve also found if I can ask a question of the audience early also helps make it more of a conversation than a speech or a lecture.

Practicing good non-verbal techniques and room control works really well here. People see and feel your energy more than they hear it in your voice. Gesture and command space, good posture and deliberate pauses. Hand gestures, some eye contact and balancing your open body around the room works wonders more than clever words

Lol…that’s me!

There’s a Ted talk about the power of the voice and how confidence is rooted in the voice. One of the tips she gives is practicing singing as a hobby. Learning that sort of control of the voice and your diaphragm can really help!

Best of luck 👍

Get yourself on stage more, practice makes perfect.

Good luck ma mayn I believe in you

So how's it going now

Hehe whtass up yo

I was a sophomore though so we were COOL 😎 lol

Where is actually he teach at?

he's now a legend

So jealous

Shrimp Ball luck you

Hahahahahahaaaa

Watch out " A dialogue to kill the fear of publics peaking TEDx"

Me too i've just made a presentation and it was hooooooooooorrible hooorrible hooorrible 😑😑😑

If that's happening, simple techniques are probably not enough. But there are more powerful techniques that can work for you!

@@fathifathi8750 I'm sorry to hear that! But you can get beyond the fear, I promise. You just haven't found the right intervention. What have you tried so far?

I get the same type of anxiety

@@areebahkhalifa7725 how are you doing now? How do you cope it?

I feel you. I’m in my late thirties, and it’s not getting any better. I’m always super conscious that even small talks with family member, i stutter.

We are not alone, it think this feeds more our anxiety thinking we are the only ones with the “problem” I have avoided opportunities that will help me be successful but I really have self doubt due to my anxiety I automatically let these scenarios run in my head on how it will prevent my true potential. I want to be an early head start teacher. I love to help children grow and help them reach their milestones and I would always find myself thinking that my fear and anxiety will make me the worst teacher and will not allow me to really participate and perform like the others. I felt alone and incapable of showing my skills.

Your anxiety is similar to mine, with time passing sometimes I think its getting better but once I m in a real situation I freak out. When I have recorded myself in a presentation I was chocked, I found that most of this sensations are just in my head and I was not too bad and it started giving me confidence over time. I'm not yet relaxed but I feel little bit better than before. I m stressed weeks before any presentation I thought many times to quit any job that involves me into speaking in front of people because preparation and breathing never helped me. The fact that I'm overthinking is the motor of this kind of situation and the fuel is every thought you felt bad about yourself in the past. You are not alone, I'm just like you and I'll try anything to make myself feel better before speaking in front of a public. Do you feel that's always in the beginning and it's getting better when someone interrupt you and speak, it gives your heart a break to calm down and then you feel yourself capable to do better even if it's not perfect. It's not a curse, you and I and people like us have just the most developed capacity to detect a dangerous situation, we would survive better than anyone in nature but unfortunately this is not helping in a modern society but I have a hope that one day we will figure out how to manage this anxiety. I don't want to use beta blockers those are medicines that can stop the heart from jumping high , It's not really helping because it's just not you and you cannot use them many times and for long period because those are for blood pressure patients do better to focus on how the hijack our mind to stop overthinking. I wish you luck.

Oh trust me there's a plethora of reasons. I'm the same. The cause is always childhood trauma. However you can fight your issues by learning from people like this and working really really hard for months, if not years.

My be lying ,but have confident outside .

But he wasn’t talking about social anxiety, he’s talking about people who overthink about talking in front of the class, it’s similar but not the same.