Don’t Aim for Perfect
If you focus on the important parts of speaking – showing enthusiasm, engaging your audience and sharing meaningful information concisely – then you don’t need to aim for perfection.
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Two Steps to Speaking Confidence
In my opinion, the antidote to your fear of public speaking has two vital steps, neither of which you’re going to like*. 1.) Prepare as thoroughly as you can for your talks and conversations. (I have loads of advice for that, and obviously there’s other advice all over the internet). I know it’s a pain
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You’re Better Than A.I.
I love science fiction. In particular, I love its robots*. My top three are K-2SO from ‘Rogue One’, Bishop from ‘Aliens’ and Ultron from the MCU. They are physical representations of A.I., something currently at the start of a revolution in which many job roles may be replaced by a faster, cheaper and more efficient
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The Definition of Confidence
I talk a lot about confidence, but what is it, really? Defining confidence may sound like a pointless, beard-stroking exercise, but I think that by clarifying it, confidence can be much easier to achieve. You could define your confidence as: I used to think that ‘I trust myself’ was a good definition, but now it feels
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Remove Stress with a Useful Perspective
Everyone’s the hero in their own story, and you’re just a bit-part. This is a good thing.
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