for seven years i presented the news on television and every thursday i wasthere in front of my camera and i heard the director in my ear saying:attention studio for life 5, 4, 3, ... and every thursday i felt my heart racing. every week, seven years... now i tell you this because there isthis huge misunderstanding that experienced speakers they are notnervous. when you see that speaker on
stage and you say like like: "well they doit in a natural way" no they don't. they are nervous. but the difference to me between an experienced and inexperiencedspeaker is that experience people know how to handle the nerves. i want to give you this insight because it really helped me a lot to deal with my nerves. because it all begins with the brain.that's where my explanation begins. because you have to look at your brain as having these different antennas
your brain really wants to protectyourself and it takes that job very seriously so as soon as the antennas perceive akind of danger a button is pushed. it's a button somewhere here in your head in your brain and it's called theamygdala. it has to shape of an almond the color of an almond. it is small as an almondit is a very important button because as soon as the button is pushedthat's what we call the fight or flight reaction you have all these sensations in your bodytypically the things that you experience when you are nervous
like a dry mouth legs shaking, your heart really beating very fast your respiration is going faster and this is something that actually is thereto protect yourself because as it is a fight or flight reactionimagine that there is this car nearly racing into you when you when youcross a road. the fact that you have this heart beat that is faster, it actuallyprepares you to react and to run actually now the thing is, when you stand in front of an audience
you cannot run. so the antennas theydon't make a difference between real danger and a danger in your head. so what happens is when you in front of your audience you cannot run,you kind of freeze but still you have these sensations so youwant to protect yourself now this is on a subconscious level what happens on a conscious level is thatactually when you stand in front of youraudience you want to protect yourselve actually by doing this now this isoverdoing it but to some extent that's what speakersactually do in front of an audience
stand like that you really want toprotect yourself looking down looking very quickly from one person to another now what does an experienced speaker do?exactly the opposite they on a conscious level they make themselves big in front of theaudience you could say that they fake it making yourself big what i mean withthat is having that posture in in front of youraudience that gives you a kind of a positive attitude.now to know what that is just watch television. you can really learn a lot from it
and i advise you to look especially atpeople for example presenting the news but people standing because that's themost difficult thing to do have to stand in front of that audience what to dowith your arms what to do with your legs just look at how they stand and imitatethat because this is a good neutral positionsame thing for the way you look tips that i have there is that youactually look at your audience as if you pour them a glass of winebecause this will help you to stay with one person you look at one individual at the time.the time it takes
to pour them a glass of wine.to avoid that you would either look away or look very nervously from oneperson to another so the next time you experience thesenerves what i advise you to do is stand and look it a conscious way just watchtelevision to know what that can be and watch ted.com because on that website you have allthese presentations with powerpoint without powerpoint look at it without volume because ithelps you to look how they stand
what i absolutely advise you to do is watch amy cuddy she's an expert on bodylanguage and this is exactly what she's talkingabout about faking it to just have a look, imitate, integrate and make it your own. go
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