Ep. 7 – Talking about Speech Anxiety, Part 4
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Show notes: Drew spends five final minutes on speech anxiety.
Teach: Be realistic. Fear of public speaking won’t go away over night. But you can reduce it and control it. Get your butterflies flying in one direction. Cognitive Restructuring (sometimes known as “reframing”). Cognitive means thoughts and restructuring means rebuild or remake. So in public speaking, you want to learn how to change your thinking about public speaking.
Think of it as an MP3 player that only plays negative thoughts about speaking. People are out to get me. People are going to see my hands shake. The key is to change the song on the MP3 player to one where you get positive thoughts about about public speaking.
Tip: Reject absolutist thinking. Nothing is 100 percent and negative thinking about public speaking can assume that. Remember that the past is not predictive of the future
To Do: The list I asked you to write: Write something positive to counter your negative thought. For example: The audience must like me. Write: The audience will not be critical of every word or action I do. Once you have your list, practice saying it outline. It sounds stupid, but the most you say it. The more you believe it.
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