Interesting Snippets

The key to public speaking is establishing a routine that solves for the thirty seconds between when your anxiety starts and when you need to go up on stage. After that nothing else really matters. Most normal people do not engage in public speaking regularly enough to be able to actually change any of the fundamentals about how they speak. The very best you can hope to do is to not sound worse than you do when speaking in your own living room. And that itself is actually a really good axiom to start with:

Don’t try to become a good public speaker, just try to speak like a normal person while in public.