Overcome the Dreaded "Nerves" - in Public Speaking & Entertaining - Part 3

By: Johnnie Gentle
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:43:05
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OK, so you really want that job but you dread the interview. At your last interview you became tongue-tied and really “blew-it”.

However, we can’t let past experiences prevent us from achieving great things in the future. We need to improve our public speaking ability and overcome the dreaded feeling of “Nerves”.

If we want to perform and continue to raise our standards with every performance, we need to understand that nerves are natural and are your guides.

The one sure thing is, that as soon as you start to speak or perform, or start the race or game, the nerves begin to diminish and very quickly vanish altogether, but they have set you up, with the adrenaline flowing, for a super performance.

Think about the boxers or footballers who are extremely nervous in the dressing room before the event. Even at the highest level, you can clearly see during National Anthems and pre-match formalities that these supreme sportsmen are very nervous indeed. Yet they know that they are often the best in the world. They also know that nerves are natural and they set the tone for a great performance, and will vanish as soon as the game starts.

Exactly the same applies to the game of performing magic. No matter how well you have prepared your routine of tricks and your patter, you will still feel that nervousness.

The answer is to "feel the fear and do it anyway". As soon as you start to speak or perform the nervousness will begin to subside, and as you get into your stride, it will vanish completely.

You will then be concentrating on entertaining your audience and enjoying the pleasure of being in command and having others hanging on your every word and amazed and amused by your magic. You will also have a wonderful feeling of power and superiority that always follows, when you overcome an obstacle such as this severe nervousness.

Once you know that nerves will vanish, you can’t wait to get started. You now understand why top speakers and performers are a bag of nerves, pacing the dressing room, or picking nervously at the pre-speech dinner. They are just going through the natural process of preparation and are eager to get on with the job.

Unfortunately, the average person feels that this nervousness is a sign of their inability to perform or carry out the task at hand and so they refuse to enter the game, or when they feel the intense nervousness at the beginning of their performance, they assume it will get worse and they usually perform and speak at great speed, in order to try to get the ordeal over as quickly as possible.

This not only ruins their performance, but doesn’t give them time to settle into their act for long enough to enable this nervousness to subside. They immediately come to the conclusion that the nerves will continue and only disappear when the talk or the performance is over. So they try to get finished as quickly as possible.

This self-imposed strain leads often, to performances of excellent content, and great entertainment value, being cut short or delivered badly. The outcome being that the performer vows that he will never try to speak or perform in public again, - and usually never does. – What a shame!

Don’t let “nerves” ruin your performance or even prevent you from ever experiencing the joy and thrill of speaking in public.

Learn more about the art of public speaking and confidently go for that interview and get the job that you’ve always wanted.

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