If you want to overcome your fear of speaking in public, learn a lesson from Winston Churchill. Long before he became prime minister of the United Kingdom, Churchill tried to overcome his public speaking jitters by writing out and memorizing his speeches.
Until one day, while standing before the British Parliament, reciting his speech from memory, Churchill's memory took a vacation. Churchill searched his memory for a helpful marker to guide him on his voyage. He found none.
So, Churchill did what most frightened speakers do when they forget their memorized lines. He repeated his last sentence. As his listener's faces turned pale in alarm, Churchill's face turned scarlet. He stood alone for a few more moments, struggling to recall the phrases he had committed to memory, any of them. Then, in utter humiliation, and defeat, he sat down.
From that day until his death in 1965, Churchill delivered hundreds of speeches, many of them remembered to this day, but not a single one of them delivered from memory.
The secret to overcoming fear of public speaking is to memorize what you want to say, not how you are going to say it. Don't memorize your talk word for word. Instead memorize ideas and concepts.
Start by creating a simple outline of your talk, and commit that to memory. A simple outline includes a beginning, a middle and an end. Give each of those segments a title that's easy to remember when you're on stage or at the front of the boardroom.
If you must memorize anything, memorize a few elegant or compelling ways of expressing a fact, idea or opinion. You should also know where you are going to end, so you recognize the mileposts when you get there.
The greatest advantage to not memorizing your speeches is that your speeches become more memorable. When you speak from your heart and not from your memory, your audience notices. You become, as dale Carnegie puts it, "more alive, more effective, more human."
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