By Banchi

If you are called upon to stand up and speak on a subject you know so well, what would your reaction be? How would you deliver what YOU KNOW?

Well, there is no reason why you should not be able to think as well in a perpendicular position before an audience as you can when sitting down.

Do not imagine that your case is unusually difficult. Even those who afterward became the most eloquent representatives of their generation were, at the outset of their careers, afflicted by this blinding fear and self-consciousness.

Here are Insane Examples from history:

• Disraeli admitted that he would rather have led a cavalry charge than to have faced the House of Commons for the first time. His opening speech there was a ghastly failure.

• Mark Twain, the first time he stood up to lecture, felt as if his mouth were filled with cotton and his pulse were speeding for some prize cup.

• Charles Stewart Parnell, the Great Irish leader, at the outset of his speaking career, was so nervous, according to the testimony of his brother, that he frequently clenched his fists until his nails sank into his flesh and his palms bled.

Excerpt from the book ‘How To Develop Self-Confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking by DALE CARNEGIE

So, YOU may be absolutely sure that training and practice will wear away your audience-fright and give you self-confidence and an abiding courage.

—- Continue reading to ‘THE 8 ESSENTIAL AMMUNITIONS THAT HELP YOU TO SPEAK WITH MORE CLARITY AND CONFIDENCE’

To Your Inspirations,

Banchi