Overcoming Public Speaking Anxiety: Simple Techniques to Stay Calm (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: Did you know that more than 50% of the people in the world are more afraid of public speaking than they are of dying? That's more than one in two Whenever we go out to speak in public If it's ten people a thousand people or just one person in front of you something happens Namely one of our five senses is fired off the five senses. I see something I smell something I taste something I hear something or I feel something When one of these is fired off something happens in my inside my brain Namely, it's called adrenaline when adrenaline goes inside my brain. My teeth will go like and my pitch will go up because I'm going to speak a little more high and I am most likely to speak very fast Why because the adrenaline is teaching us to go faster and faster it's something to protect us nothing wrong with it just protection How can I interrupt this system? It's two steps step number one put yourself on your toes and let yourself fall on your heels Those heels those heels very easy and immediately go into action when you're sitting down Just wiggle your toes in your shoe. So you feel your feet feel your butt in the chair start talking Get yourself in the here and now nothing to be afraid of Number two get your chin parallel with the floor whenever your chin is parallel with the floor You can go up because when I go up with my chin Adrenaline immediately is going to the rescue. So it will make my voice tremble You know the tremble like you go like this the pitch goes a little bit up so you think I'm not confident about myself and the teeth go like Not literally this hard, but they go just a little so you get the trembling voice So easy get the chin like this stand on your feet wiggle your toes and you're ready set to go You