Redbull before a speech, Will that help?

lisab

Quote by Evo

Yikes! Not directly related to your work!

At least I knew what I was going to talk about, even if there were "differences", I knew enough about how things worked in general to give a short report. I do see the benefit of rehearsing a speech in some situations, school & politics. But if you rehearse, you still need to have a good grip of what the subject is or when you get lost, you will be in a pickle, I have suffered from "brain freeze" before. I always hated public speaking.

I had a bad, embarrassing panic a few years ago, while giving a presentation. I knew the subject matter backwards, forwards, sideways, and diagonally - it didn't help.

The good thing about this experience: two years later I had to give the same presentation at the same function. I was completely relaxed about it because I figured, how could it possibly be worse than last time? And it went flawlessly.

Drakkith

Quote by Adrenaline_

Thank you very much, Most of the replies make me feel confident, you know "i can do it" kind of feeling.
So, according to most of the people here i must not rely on drugs. Alright, i'm sure people here know better.
Its not that i've never given speech, i did it many times, infact some times i was fluent during speech's, but the thought of giving a speech with more than 5000 people around gives me goosebumps thats what i am talking about.
This is why i bought drugs into the discussion, as this probably would be my first time infront of a huge crowd, before i've given speech's only before 100-200, max 500 people.

Holy crap, 5000+ people? Well, just know your subject material and practice and you should still do fine.

Monique

500 or 5000, both are big numbers. Really you are presenting for a handful of people in that audience who care about your message, that's how I see it.

It will not happen that all 5000 come up to you after the presentation to converse on the topic, they don't really care that much. However, it's those 1-5 people that approach you afterwards that makes it worthwhile.

Monique

Quote by Evo

Yikes! Not directly related to your work!

At least I knew what I was going to talk about, even if there were "differences", I knew enough about how things worked in general to give a short report.

It's about staying up to date about new technologies and scientific insights/developments. Since my topic is only interesting to me (and I'm supposed to be up-to-date on the latest developments) I need to pick research that's interesting for everyone in the department, from clinician to statistician to biologist. That in itself is already impossible, reading up on all the background and delivering the message to such a broad audience while keeping the time-investment at the minimum definitely is a challenge.

But if you rehearse, you still need to have a good grip of what the subject is or when you get lost, you will be in a pickle, I have suffered from "brain freeze" before. I always hated public speaking.

I remember my first presentation in college very well, I was extremely nervous and thought my fellow-students would feel it was bad. Instead they gave compliments afterwards and said I looked so calm and collected, that's when I realized that it's ok to be nervous and you can deliver a good presentation regardless: as long as you take your time and not rush.

Sometimes I get a brain freeze that I don't have a clue what the data presented in a slide is supposed to say, but I always put the necessary information in the title so I just say that and hope nobody asks a question on the actual experiment

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Monique Recognitions: Gold Member Science Advisor Staff Emeritus	500 or 5000, both are big numbers. Really you are presenting for a handful of people in that audience who care about your message, that's how I see it. It will not happen that all 5000 come up to you after the presentation to converse on the topic, they don't really care that much. However, it's those 1-5 people that approach you afterwards that makes it worthwhile.