I don't fear public speaking. Is this usual?

If you haven't felt the rush of your knees knocking together, or forgetting your speech, then you haven't spoke in enough situations.

This is simply not true.

There are those of us who are sociopaths. We have no fear of public speaking. In fact it gets us hard.

If you are not fearful or nervous doing public speaking and talking to a large group of audience, maybe you should share with others how you do it and how can they learn from you too.

Fear is just a thought pattern that gets in the way of happiness. We can let those thought patterns go and choose to feel safe instead.

Here's a video that can help with this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GsBhoEM ... iKlBvXgIFs

namismybabe wrote:I don't get how public speaking is commonly feared, since I've never really feared it.

I would say I am fairly confident, but not overly so relative to the many.

It's commonly feared by those that bought into it as punishment in school. Teachers often abuse children by making an example of them in front of a group and making them perform in front of them knowing full well the student won't do well at that time. Quite a number of people who experienced this at a very young age will forget it happened and not realize as an adult why they have an aversion to public speaking and not realize it's due to all of their public speaking experiences being connected to punishment and an authority forcing them to perform.

Some people manage to avoid this punishment/performing conditioning and we don't suffer from this.

I also really like this nature.Because no fear is working into myself.

no fear of public speaking then you are a lucky such and such - use it! enjoy the gift

There are some things that some people are born to do. Perhaps that is one of your gifts

It is OK not to have fear. If the stakes are high, however, you may feel fear. Any emotion that you have is always triggered by thoughts. Examine your thoughts and you will get your answer.

All the best.

The main reason is fear of judgement. Many will say don't let people judge you or don't care about what people think. I don't think this is the best way to look at the issue. The focus should be on gaining a true understanding of whatever you're talking about, and believing in what you say. That's what people are able to sense off you and that is what they will judge you on: whether you mean what you say; that you're authentic. Once this is taken care of the rest becomes second nature, like breathing. Do ever fear that you won't breathe well enough?

If you don't have fear of public speaking that is great! Probably you didn't have bad past experiences or you don't let bad past experience ruin your future experience! Fear of public speaking comes as lack of knowledge, lack of knowledge how to deal with the people, how to influence others, how to deal with criticism, how to be self-confident, etc. Another thing, fear is also result of lack of practice. If we are afraid of something we will avoid situations which make us feel uncomfortable. But only way to grow is to get uncomfortable. The only way to get rid of the fear is to face the fear!

Everybody are confident in different situations and nervous in others. Most people have some sort of fear in public speaking.

Use that confidence in Public Speaking wisely. Try and make your speaking more impactful by looking at how you vary the tone of your voice, how you portray your body language and how you can engage your audience better.