Friday, September 24, 2010

Response; "Stage Fright"

While I was reading David's post, I thought that I could really relate to it:
 "Ever since I was a kid, I always acquired the trait stage fright when I was on stage. I disliked the feeling of everyone constantly staring at me. It makes me feel as if I was an important person and that I had to become perfect. I felt that if I made a mistake, everyone would laugh at me and tease me afterward."
     I felt like I have attribute this characteristic of stage fright ever since I was in elementary. This is something that I would like to overcome. I want to change this to a strength of mines that I would be able to use on my educational career. Stage fright is very common, and people mostly derive this feeling when they are going to have a presentation in from of an audience. I personally have improved from being really nervous in front of the class and start to shift away from that position.

     This kind of feeling always occur no matter how much I have practiced. I noticed that my words will start sounding really dis-formed like I was a beginner in learning English. Then I would just start speaking very fast and not notice it. Something very embarrassing that would always happen when I am presenting is that my face would just turn bright red and I would start to feel my face burning up. If I start being really nervous, my hands would start to shake uncontrollably and start to mispronounce words.

     Having everyone staring at me makes me feel that I have to do a really good; this kind of relate to what David said. I have found something that I should do when I get really nervous and keep me very calm. This is a thing I know that a lot of people do before they present. I have learned to take a deep breath and think of a positive thing, and hence you would have faith in ourselves that we will not fail. I will try to use this skill to the fullest, but I often seem to forget to take a deep breath and also I would feel that everyone will think I am weird when I am taking a deep breath in the middle of speaking.

   

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