For all of my life, I have had a horrible fear of public speaking. During speeches, I find myself hyperventilating in the back as I wait for my turn. Unfortunately, when I get up for my actual speech, I stumble over words and my temperature rises to insane degrees. At the beginning of senior year, I found similarities in discussions in AP English and formal speeches. I became hesitant of speaking for the first couple weeks. Unfortunately, this reluctance to speak proved itself detrimental to my grade and my ability to outgrow this fear. Gradually, I have become more open in my speaking abilities during class. I have found comfort in our informal setting. I believe this new found ability sprouts from my increased knowledge and a new confidence in my thoughts. I feel obligated to spread my ideas and participate in discussion. Moving forward, I feel that my openess to share ideas will help me in real life. During college next year, I may take up a leadership position in a sororiety or club. In these positions I can prove myself by spreading my ideas for the group and controlling the situation with my confidence in speaking. In the work field, I will be able to communicate with my peers and promote my own opinions into the company I work for. AP English has once again improved my learning and ability to communicate with others.Thursday, December 23, 2010
The Horrors of Public Speaking
For all of my life, I have had a horrible fear of public speaking. During speeches, I find myself hyperventilating in the back as I wait for my turn. Unfortunately, when I get up for my actual speech, I stumble over words and my temperature rises to insane degrees. At the beginning of senior year, I found similarities in discussions in AP English and formal speeches. I became hesitant of speaking for the first couple weeks. Unfortunately, this reluctance to speak proved itself detrimental to my grade and my ability to outgrow this fear. Gradually, I have become more open in my speaking abilities during class. I have found comfort in our informal setting. I believe this new found ability sprouts from my increased knowledge and a new confidence in my thoughts. I feel obligated to spread my ideas and participate in discussion. Moving forward, I feel that my openess to share ideas will help me in real life. During college next year, I may take up a leadership position in a sororiety or club. In these positions I can prove myself by spreading my ideas for the group and controlling the situation with my confidence in speaking. In the work field, I will be able to communicate with my peers and promote my own opinions into the company I work for. AP English has once again improved my learning and ability to communicate with others.
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Kelsey,
ReplyDeleteI feel the exact same way. I never thought of myself as shy but for some reason I always freaked out when I needed to speak in public or anything similar to that. With the daily discussions the option to remain silent simply does not exist and im finding myself becoming a lot better about public speaking in general.
Kelsey, I also feel that way. If I’m waiting to make a speech I can feel my stomach twisting into knots of nervousness and dread. And when it’s actually time to deliver the speech, I find myself talking way too quickly and probably not making any sense at all. Like you mentioned, if I am reading a speech out loud, I always stumble over the words and it sounds like I have peanut butter in my mouth with my lack of articulation. Talking in public is just not fun.
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