{"id":606,"date":"2019-03-28T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T22:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/?p=606"},"modified":"2023-07-18T13:15:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T18:15:54","slug":"public-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Public Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To get over my fear of public speaking, I joined my high school debate team. I wasn’t a great debater but joining that club allowed me to get comfortable speaking in front of crowds. Still not great at smaller social gathering (that’s a work in progress), in front of an audience I’m okay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 things that work for me:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  1. Know what you’re going to talk about but not exactly how you’re going to talk about it.<\/li>
  2. Have a “map” of your speech to know where the important points and how they connect.<\/li>
  3. Practice before, even if it’s just in your head. Aloud is best, but a quiet moment also okay.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    These points have worked for me but I have also typed out entire talks when I had a time limit or was speaking on behalf of a group where the specifics of my speech were more important than the style. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I have bombed. I have been stiff and robotic.
    BUT I have also done well and gotten better over time. I won’t ever be a GREAT public speaker but I’ll get by. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    To get over my fear of public speaking, I joined my high school debate team. I wasn’t a great debater but joining that club allowed me to get comfortable speaking in front of crowds. Still not great at smaller social gathering (that’s a work in progress), in front of an audience I’m okay. 3 things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}