The Art of Public Speaking | Nausheen Chen

What you're talking about in terms of public speaking.

There's a lot of research that has been done on this.

Essentially, if you think back to caveman times, when we used to live in caves, being away from your tribe, so being singled out, having no one around you.

not having any weapons on you, people looking at you, you being in the spotlight, having nowhere to run.

All those things were gigantic red flags for our lizard brains.

And that's why there is a deep seated fear of public speaking, of being singled out, of being in the spotlight that we just can't help.

That's incredible.

I never trainable.

I never made that connection of being like singled out.

Like you don't want to be the white cow in the herd of black cows.

And yeah, I never, that's amazing.

You're up on stage.

You're so vulnerable for attack and somebody eating you.

Yeah.

That never crossed my mind when I'm on stage, but obviously that's where the fear comes from.

Yes, that's a lizard part of our brain kicking in.

However, the good news is it's absolutely trainable because, of course, you can reason with that lizard part of your brain.

You can give it the right tools.

You can build self-trust.

You can build confidence.

We can go into those things in the conversation.

But there are so many tools that you can use to get yourself out of that mindset.

Because essentially, when you're in that mindset, it's the fight, flight, or freeze instinct that kicks in.

Oh, I froze.

Yeah, for you, it's freezing.

What you're talking about in terms of public speaking.

There's a lot of research that has been done on this.

Essentially, if you think back to caveman times, when we used to live in caves, being away from your tribe, so being singled out, having no one around you.

not having any weapons on you, people looking at you, you being in the spotlight, having nowhere to run.

All those things were gigantic red flags for our lizard brains.

And that's why there is a deep seated fear of public speaking, of being singled out, of being in the spotlight that we just can't help.

That's incredible.

I never trainable.

I never made that connection of being like singled out.

Like you don't want to be the white cow in the herd of black cows.

And yeah, I never, that's amazing.

You're up on stage.

You're so vulnerable for attack and somebody eating you.

Yeah.

That never crossed my mind when I'm on stage, but obviously that's where the fear comes from.

Yes, that's a lizard part of our brain kicking in.

However, the good news is it's absolutely trainable because, of course, you can reason with that lizard part of your brain.

You can give it the right tools.

You can build self-trust.

You can build confidence.

We can go into those things in the conversation.

But there are so many tools that you can use to get yourself out of that mindset.

Because essentially, when you're in that mindset, it's the fight, flight, or freeze instinct that kicks in.

Oh, I froze.

Yeah, for you, it's freezing.