It has been discovered that most people do have a certain degree of fear when the time calls for them to deliver a speech in front of a crowd. In fact, most of us would like to escape from public speaking if granted the opportunity to do so. However, it is sometimes difficult for us to refrain from public speaking when we are in a leadership position or when we have to deliver an important message to achieve a particular objective.

Ironically, the fear of public speaking can be greatly reduced if we can identify the main reasons for it arising in our minds. In this article, I would like to highlight a few of these reasons.

Firstly, many people uphold the belief that public speaking is stressful by nature. This is a myth because countless people have managed to overcome their fear of public speaking though they were frightened during their first few attempts in public speaking. This implies that it is practically possible for anyone to overcome this fear so long as they embrace the correct mindset towards it.

Secondly, most of us tend to believe that we need to have great oratorical skills to be a successful public speaker. However, this is not the whole truth about public speaking because a speech by itself needs not be perfect from head to tail. It is okay if you missed out certain segment of the prepared speech because your audience had never demanded a flawless speech from you. The only key thing about public speaking is to ensure that the ideas in your speech will be useful and beneficial to the audience after they had listened to it.

Lastly, many individuals think that their audience will be pinpointing their faults after their speech delivery. As a result, this generates an immense fear of public speaking. This cannot be further from the truth because most of the time your audience is kind enough to want you to excel in public speaking. This means that they will be supporting you throughout your speech and their assessment of your performance will be better than your own inner critique.