Tsipursky Speech Fear

Public speaking is the number one fear in the world, which shows that the number one fear is really a deep fear of rejection from the connection of others. The narrator in “Typical First Year Professor”, who had a fantastic education and experience, has public speaking issues. She explains how her fear physically affects her in, “Ten minutes before my first class, I run to the bathroom and vomit. I’m afraid of public speaking, which

“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.”-Karl Augustus Menninger.

The objective of this study is to examine an informal learning experience such as how someone might have a fear of height or how a particular food or smell moves the individual emotionally or why someone develops the fear of elevators. For the purpose of this study the reason an individual would fear public speaking is examined and the importance of informal learning for gaining experience and confidence in public speaking.

Public speaking is a fear faced by over 75% of the Earth’s population. In fact, 5.3 million of Americans today face social phobia and speech anxiety. Commonly referred to as “glossophobia”, speech anxiety is fear people face when delivering speeches and/or lectures to large audiences. The article, “Conquer Fear of Public Speaking through Emotional Intelligence”, written by Gleb Tsipursky, provides people with expert advice on how to conquer their speech anxiety. As someone who presents ideas and projects on a daily basis, I have started to conquer my speech anxiety. When I first moved to Hillsborough in 2013, I was petrified when delivering my student council speech. No one knew me, and I only had a scant amount of friends. I patently remember being extremely

Some people can feel comfortable speaking or performing in front of large groups of people, but feel anxious making small talk or meeting new people. Other people are comfortable spending time with friends and family, and interact with their co-workers, but they fear performance situations, such as participating in business meetings or giving speeches. Some people fear only a single situation (such as public speaking), while others fear and avoid every social situations.

I was a little apprehensive about taking the Self Esteem quiz due to a personal situation that happened about 6 months ago that has depleted my self-esteem and escalating the need for approval. Before taking the quiz, I cleared my mind, did some mindful breathing, and stayed in the present moment. While taking the exam, I found myself quite calm during the assessment because of the tools I used beforehand. The quiz reminded me of how many strong qualities I possess, but highlighted my need to work on self-sufficiency. Having low self-sufficiency drives my need to please others and often times, I go out of my way to be nice to everyone and am careful what I say and do. This has affected my communication greatly in what and how I say and not speaking up if I have questions during class. It also has affected how I act around people I don’t know very well, reducing the chance to get to know others better. Each day I remind myself

During my academic journey, public speaking has always been an extreme fear. When I enrolled at Thomas Nelson Community College, the first question that I asked was do I have to take Public Speaking. My experience with talking in front of people resulted in hot pepper colored face, blacking out, dizziness, or nausea. In Spring of 2016, I went ahead and enrolled in Professor Fotinos’s class just to get it over with. As class day one approached, fear and anxiety started to rise. When the first speech day came, I volunteered to go with the first group so that I was done and the anxiety wasn’t building up. As I was doing my speech, I thought of what Professor Fotinos told the class to do and calmed down. The more speeches that I did, presenting

Most of us are terrified of something, whether snakes, ghost or talking to the public. As like others, I found myself afraid to talked and keen to socialize with a group. The event of 8th-grade English class, Mr. Wright, assigns us an oral presentation. We have to present the project front of our class. I despise oral presentations and at a time my mind was filled with irrational thoughts. Fortunately, I have found myself with a group of people, who diligently guide me through the semester. I vividly recall those riveting moments, that I tackled my worst fear. English class has taught me numerous life lessons. And being one was discovering my better self. English class has given me an opportunity to be optimistic about my future. To achieve

Communication anxiety occurs to many people during public speeches or personal conversations, including me. I have experience communication anxiety when meeting new people for the first time, giving speeches for a course grade in front of my classmates, asking for help in study groups after a class section, or even praying before thanksgiving meal with my family. This occurs because I feel lonely and pressured during these events; I feel like I am expected to be perfect and sometimes I even feel that being perfect is not good enough. One strategy I took going into my first speech for my public speaking class, was to see how my other classmates would perform, and what kind of response they will get from their audience. This form of strategy is associated with one of the brands/form of communication anxiety, which is known as State-anxiety. State-anxiety- means that one fears of speaking publicly based on previous experiences of public humiliation during speeches or has experienced seeing someone humiliated when giving a public speech. In fact, I used or try using state-anxiety to my advantage because it allowed me to present my speech in a similar but different form, from them in such a way that I saw their mistakes and I try to capitalize on them. However, this strategy would have failed and probably led to me not presenting my speech, if my classmates experienced would’ve been so dysfunctional and humiliating

They had a study with about 78 people that categorized into three groups; social phobia, shyness without social phobia, and not shy. The experimenters were given self-evaluations and were tested on their ability to give speeches. Through the study they found that shy clients without social phobia self-reported that they had the same amount of anxiety and fear before giving the speech. Even though the clients self-reported similar anxiety levels the clients without social phobias performed better while giving the speeches. They also self-reported of having the same amount of anxiety but less impairment during everyday life demands compared to clients with social

People’s fear can consist of the fear of failure, public performance or speaking, or even the fear of large crowds. All of these aforementioned fears were turned into obstacles I had to overcome about 8 years ago. Butterflies had filled my stomach (giving me a vexatious sensation) as if I had just eaten a 4 course Thanksgiving meal, and as I stared into a crowd of, what felt like, a million people, I wanted to call for help, and be in the comfort of my home. I pinched myself, Okay, not a million people, but around 400. There is nothing I can

Those that have used this information successfully have included many in business who must routinely give presentations, show business folks who want to be able to deliver the best performance possible and those who just join an organization and must participate in large meetings once in a while. The symptoms of fear, and how to control them are identical to all of us. The only thing that separates us in terms of public speaking is the severity of those symptoms and how we're able to control them. Speaking in public is the No. 1 fear of Americans. It surpasses our fear of losing our jobs, losing our relationships and, believe it or not, people write in surveys they fear public speaking even more than death (although I suspect that given a true life and death situation, they could muster the courage to give a little

I used the search engine Google with the search term “public speaking fear” and it brought up a great deal of interesting websites pertaining to public speaking. The first one I decided to peruse was 5 Tips to Reduce the Fear of Public Speaking on Psychology Today’s website. I learned that public speaking is the number one fear in America, while the fear of death is second in line. This means that we’re more afraid of speaking in public than we are of dying. I also learned five tips on how to reduce public speaking nervousness.

The second type of phobic disorder is social phobia. According to John Santrock, “Social phobia is an intense fear of being humiliated or embarrassed in social situations. Individuals with this phobia are afraid that they will say or do the wrong thing.” Those with this phobia are afraid of being judged and evaluated negatively and of being made fun of. According to Ong, they fear groups of people, individuals, or specific situations. This phobia includes fear of speaking in public or being under scrutiny. It is sometimes referred to as stage fright. Fear of public speaking is said to be the most common kind of social phobia. Social phobia hinders the affected persons to socialize with others. The said individuals may be excessively self-conscious and

Obviously, speeches are scary for anyone who hates public speaking. I happen to be one of those people; I get terribly nervous see all the faces staring at me. I am nervous about that sort of stuff, but I’m trying to get over it. Honestly, I think it was a great thing that I was able to get this speech out of the way. Once I get through doing something like this, I tend to get a lot more comfortable afterwards with my classmates. Doing these speeches even when I don’t want to is definitely a pro; it prepares me for the real world. I really liked the topic I presented. I felt that when I did this speech it was much better than the last one. I believe this happened because the topic was something I have done before and am very