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When you’re in front of an audience, the trick is to remember that they want you to succeed as much as you do. They want to like you, so let them!
Toastmasters is effective because it gives you a lot of practice at public speaking in front of an audience. Every week, you have to make a speech. Sometimes, you have to make one up with only a few minutes’ preparation. It sounds scary, but the more times you do it, the easier it gets. After a while, those butterflies are still there, but they flutter a lot more gently.
A couple of months ago, I was asked, last-minute, to do the reading at my grandmother’s funeral. I’m Queen of the Cold-Read, so I just concentrated on my usual thing of bringing the words to life. Afterwards, my dad said that everyone was spellbound—including the priest (who’d been on auto-pilot through the whole Mass), who looked as though he were hearing the words of the 23rd Psalm for the first time. And when an atheist can do that to a priest, it’s really something! Grandma would have been so proud, because she used to enjoy ruffling the feathers of complacent clergy.
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