Fear of Public Speaking Archives

In Defense of Freezing

Those of us in the speaking world talk variously about stage fright, or nerves, or adrenaline, but when we’re getting ...

I was instructing the mid-career executives on “Persuasion and Influence” recently at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, and I was ...

Over the years, I’ve often recommended using positive mantras to help you deal with stage fright of all kinds and ...

What causes your body to jump into an adrenaline response? For most of us, snakes, spiders, and other creepy crawly ...

Anyone who speaks, either professionally or for one’s job, experiences a failure of the attempted communication at least occasionally. The ...

This is my third and final piece of this series on the anxiety of public speaking. Adrenaline can cause speakers ...

The most common question I get asked about public speaking is, “how do I control (reduce, eliminate) my nerves?” As ...

Is stress bad for humans? The popular view is that stress is bad, but the neurological research shows a more ...

It used to be a truism of body language studies that alpha males asserted their status by taking up more ...

I am an anxious person. I like things to go well, especially social situations, and I put energy into trying ...