I personally believe that no one on earth was born
inherently ready to give quite decent public speeches. However, I do believe
that one can acquire such skills in which can make her to look like a
charismatic speaker like Steve Jobs. To be honest, I do not consider myself as
a charismatic speaker, but rather that type of person wannabe. Ever since I was
a young child, I was uncomfortable of being in front of crowds. However, things
started to change ever since I started to run for a class president position;
in Korea, where I spent most of my childhood, there has to be a one person
whose in charge of all classmates in elementary, middle, and high school.
I had to look confident with rather vociferous voice to
impact others that I am the one who can fulfill the job. Of course, it wasn’t
all smooth sailing. I had to face bitter results constantly. There were others
who were better and more charismatic with remarkable public speaking skills. At
that moment, I thought they were born with those abilities. Despite of lack of
inherently gifted public speaking skills, I had to practice ten times much more
than those “gifted” individuals. It is apparent that I have a very weak eye
contact with my audience. Sometimes I
forget things to say while focusing to much on giving strong eye contacts to
them. So in order to maintain my fluency while giving eye contacts, I tend to
fully understand core points of my presentation, so that I can improvise
without failing looking at my audience. Another problem that I often do is that
I tend to touch my nose when I get nervous or simply when don’t know what to do
with my hands. It could be very distracting or may be seemed discouraging.
Overall, I would like to develop my speeches with strong eye contact, trackable
coherency with decent degree of fluency, and nothing but least, calm and
confident body gestures.
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