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Thank you for beginning our video process.
This first video that we are going to deal with
in our rhetorical quest series
is going to be dealing with anxiety.
To a large extent,
public speaking has to do with dealing with anxiety.
Being scared is part of public speaking...
And so i'm gonna talk to you today about how we can start to deal with anxieties.
The first three videos are going to deal with that.
The first one is going to be all about
understanding the different types of fear.
There's really two types of fear, and we're going to talk about both of them.
We're going to talk in our next video about how we are going to manage that
fear,
and then finally
we'll talk about in our third video
what we can do about fear. So these first three videos
are all going to have to do
with fear. And this is important!
For a lot of people,
when they were asked to list their fears,
ninety percent of people actually
ranked public speaking
above death.
on their list of fears. So I'm like, "Alright buddy.
Here's the situation...
You can give a speech
or die!" Well, I'd be like, "Oh, then
pull the trigger."
But public speaking doesn't need to be that scary.
The reason people get scared when they engage in public speaking is they're
worried that they're going to be feel a
debilitating nervousness.
There are two types of fears;
debilitating nervousness and empowering fear.
Now everyone's experienced debilitating nervousness at some time in their life.
Any time when you have made a bad decision because you were scared...
and you may have been thinking, but your thoughts weren't going in the right direction.. That's
when you have experienced debilitating nervousness.
You maybe experienced debilitating nervousness when
you were completely unable to move in a particular situation. You knew what you
had to do. You knew what needed to happen, but you didn't do it. Why didn't you do it?
You just couldn't do anything, because you were scared. And I've seen that stuff happen.
So there's two kinds of fears; debilitating nervousness and
uh...
empowering nervousness or empowering fear.
Everyone has experienced, really, both of these.
Now, anxiety isn't such a bad thing.
Anxiety is normal. Anxiety keeps us moving. It gives us nervous energy. Why am I making
this video right now? It's because I'm scared if I don't make this video and make
it right for my students, they're not going to be able to get the ideas that
they need from class.
And sometimes our nervous energy makes us work harder. And sometimes I see
students giving speeches, and, oh my goodness! They're so nervous that
you know what they do? They practice.
Yeah, they practice.
Why do they practice? Because they're scared of what might happen if they didn't.
Nervous energy is not bad, and it does not need to be deleted.
It needs to be managed...