Comments on: Overcome your fear of public speaking the proven way

By: Olivia Mitchell

Olivia Mitchell — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:38:26 +0000

Hi Jing
That’s great that positive thinking is working for you – and that virtuous cycle is great.

For others reading this – positive thinking doesn’t work for everyone – because you do have to believe that what you’re telling yourself is likely. For example if you say to yourself “My presentation will go really well and the audience will smile and nod” but don’t really believe it you’ll have another voice in your head go “Nah – that won’t happen.” If you can relate to this you may find CBT more effective.

However, if positive thinking is working for you, that’s great.

Olivia

By: Jing Wang

Jing Wang — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:04:16 +0000

Hey Olivia,

i think “thinking it” is the first step and “doing it” is the next step. Though I do not know what kind of thinking patterns do we have, I do konw that positive thinking works well for me.
For me “thinking” and “doing” are like a virtuous circle. The more I think positively, the better I will do the presentation. And the better I do the presentation, the more I built my confidence. The more confidence I have, it arouses my interest, to do more presentation.

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