Well, I'm really excited that we are going to make a course about giving presentations.

I think that there's a big need, as we've discussed already, looking at other materials. There's a lot of good stuff out

there but they're really missing I think a a big piece of what people need you

know to to really be effective I agree I've I've been giving presentations for a number of years now and I've looked at a lot of different materials

I've taught presentations to my students and I've picked up so many interesting things

from so many different sources but the one thing that I feel is missing in a lot of the presentation courses that are out there a lot of the materials that teach you how to give good presentations is the fact that when you get up on the stage and when you're up in front of a group of people you get really scared and

nervous and all that stuff you've learned just goes right out the window.

Yeah, yeah, I know so many books they'll tell you to be careful with, you know, your speech patterns.

For example, don't say, um, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, too many times or maybe they have you counting

those things or they talk about how to organize your speeches so you get all these kind of little

tips that are all good but the problem is you if you can't think about all that stuff

you get up there and you're you're nervous and your heart's pounding boom

boom boom you're

you're kind of breathing heavy and and you forget all of that stuff.

You can't be focusing on you know how many times you say uh or um that's right.

Yeah you know you just need if you could just speak in a somewhat normal comfortable way yeah

I think you would feel you know that that would be a huge improvement for most people just to be able to speak in a conversational way.

That's right and one of the biggest challenges with being able to do that is it's really

difficult to practice for that.

I mean, you know the the very thing that causes you to

shut down and your mouth to get dry and you get the butterflies in your

stomach and you can't think anymore the very thing that causes that is being up in front of a group of people.

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