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Public speaking, it freaks the best of us out.

Even if you're practiced at it,

sometimes you can just feel a little shaky.

There's an element of improvisation to the whole thing.

You think you know how it's going to go,

but there's a sense of possibility

that can be both exciting and a little daunting. So when we think about public speaking,

it's easy to get caught up in the performance of it all. Is our voice going to quiver? Are our hands

going to shake? But that risks losing sight of the most important part of the process,

connecting with the audience. So how can we cut through the anxiety and focus instead on strengthening

that bond? I'm Medupa Akinaola. This is Ted Business from the TED Audio Collective.

Our speaker today is communication expert Lawrence Bernstein. He says we're worrying about the wrong things when we give a talk.

But he's got the solution. What we need to return to is as simple as a cup of coffee.

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