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So I'm really, really bad at public speaking. Even if I don't feel nervous beforehand, my body has an immediate visceral reaction: pounding, rapid heartbeat, sweaty, shaky, forgetting to breathe, squeaky, cracking voice, et cetera. No matter how prepared I am, it always happens. No matter how much I tell myself to not be nervous, it always happens. My brain works absolutely fine-- it's merely this physical reaction that occurs.
So, with that said, I have the most important speech/presentation of my 21 years on planet earth coming up this Friday. I'm in an exhibition that's opening, my first one ever, and I have to do a ten minute talk to everyone there about my work. Needless to say, I am shitting my pants.
So far, I have the following strategies:
--My boyfriend will be there, so I am just going to awkwardly stare at him the whole time and pretend he is the only person there
--Gonna pop a couple of Xanax and maybe have a beer. Yes, that desperate.
I'm hoping you guys might have some less neurotic suggestions as to how I can relax this completely uncontrollable reaction my body has to these kinds of situations and maybe not embarrass myself in front of my peers and faculty of the university.
Kthanks!
So, with that said, I have the most important speech/presentation of my 21 years on planet earth coming up this Friday. I'm in an exhibition that's opening, my first one ever, and I have to do a ten minute talk to everyone there about my work. Needless to say, I am shitting my pants.
So far, I have the following strategies:
--My boyfriend will be there, so I am just going to awkwardly stare at him the whole time and pretend he is the only person there
--Gonna pop a couple of Xanax and maybe have a beer. Yes, that desperate.
I'm hoping you guys might have some less neurotic suggestions as to how I can relax this completely uncontrollable reaction my body has to these kinds of situations and maybe not embarrass myself in front of my peers and faculty of the university.
Kthanks!