![]() ![]() At the outset of performing: Set the Toneĭuring your first minute of speaking in public, the adrenaline spike that you experience will likely reduce your cognitive functioning.Immediately before performing: Alter Your State.Well before performing: Practice the Opening.Here are some things that you can do about it: During that time, for the sake of yourself and your audience, you don’t want to get derailed. Whether you are a newbie speaker or a master presenter, you’ve got about 30 to 60 seconds of this to get through… if you’re lucky. For them, the adrenaline spike makes them “excited” instead of “scared,” and that can be a problem if the excitement means “losing control” instead of “radiating enthusiasm.” Hence the occurrence of trained (aka “natural”) speakers rambling - getting ahead of themselves and their audience - when they first stand up to deliver a formal presentation or speech. This is normal biological functioning which requires practice to overcome.Ī smaller number of people - usually, the more experienced speakers and presenters - have it a bit easier… but they too are subject to the adrenaline rush of having many eyes pointed at them. The adrenaline spike is too much for them and they just freeze. Many people “choke” when they are asked to stand up and deliver a formal presentation or speech. ![]() The problem here is that you are about to deliver a public speech, but your body thinks you’re about to have an encounter with a sabertoothed tiger. these black-on-white dots are processed by your brain and set off a chain reaction of signals to the body: Release more adrenaline! Increase the heart rate! Reduce blood flow to the cerebral cortex! Tighten the skin and muscles! Circulate blood to the interior of the body! Fight! Flee! The appearance (or imagined appearance) of so many eyes gazing at you… little dark circles on white orbs which, despite the minute angles involved, you can tell are pointed in your direction…. They are watching… waiting… listening for what you are going to say next. Imagine a crowd of people is suddenly looking at you… in silence. ![]()
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