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Thinking about trying it and wondering if anyone here has had positive or negative experiences. Particularly interested in people with social anxiety but all input welcome.
I've only ever heard good things, I'm a little scared though because I know for sure I would hate the experience, even if it is good for me.
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Some relevant things in my case:
-my social anxiety doesn't prevent me from doing things I deem very important, but it does push me away from doing some things. I will avoid talking to strangers or making phone calls if I can at all help it, even if it hurts me. maybe a lot of people wouldn't guess I'm anxious, they'd just think I'm quiet, but I'm very uncomfortable a lot of the time. anyway.
-my future job will most likely require me to do a reasonable amount of presentations/seminars, depending what specific area I end up in, but there are some career options where I can avoid it - and I will probably try to avoid public speaking as much as humanly possible, even if I do get better at it. But I think it would be a big asset for my career if I was better at them.
-I don't enjoy giving presentations but now I'm at the point where I think my nervousness level is "normal" or perhaps slightly higher than normal, but not crippling anymore (YAY!)
-My presentation skills are average or perhaps even slightly above average, but not particularly riveting (but vastly improved from earlier, now I can hide much of my nervousness) but this only applies to practiced, prepared presentations with good slides. I'm very very bad at improvising and talking on the fly and when I try to use humour or emotion in a speech it feels fake and prepared (well mostly because it is! lol)
-I hate and try to avoid being the centre of attention, even when I have something I want to say. I'm afraid of asking "stupid questions", even if people claim there aren't any, there are.
-I have very poor verbal communication skills, I stumble over my words and forget my main point and can't think of the right words and use imperfect grammar, even when I'm not nervous (but especially when I am) (though my written skills are excellent, not that you might guess from here, lol) this is probably the weakness that bothers me the most, I wish I could express myself on-the-spot at least as well as the average person!
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Also not sure if the price (120$/year) is worth it or if I can pick up a lot of the skills elsewhere (I've improved and learned a tremendous amount this past year, for example, with practice, and I intend to continue volunteering in the fall to give science presentations to high-school and elementary kids, which should help more).
Any thoughts and/or experience (and/or advice)?
I've only ever heard good things, I'm a little scared though because I know for sure I would hate the experience, even if it is good for me.
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Some relevant things in my case:
-my social anxiety doesn't prevent me from doing things I deem very important, but it does push me away from doing some things. I will avoid talking to strangers or making phone calls if I can at all help it, even if it hurts me. maybe a lot of people wouldn't guess I'm anxious, they'd just think I'm quiet, but I'm very uncomfortable a lot of the time. anyway.
-my future job will most likely require me to do a reasonable amount of presentations/seminars, depending what specific area I end up in, but there are some career options where I can avoid it - and I will probably try to avoid public speaking as much as humanly possible, even if I do get better at it. But I think it would be a big asset for my career if I was better at them.
-I don't enjoy giving presentations but now I'm at the point where I think my nervousness level is "normal" or perhaps slightly higher than normal, but not crippling anymore (YAY!)
-My presentation skills are average or perhaps even slightly above average, but not particularly riveting (but vastly improved from earlier, now I can hide much of my nervousness) but this only applies to practiced, prepared presentations with good slides. I'm very very bad at improvising and talking on the fly and when I try to use humour or emotion in a speech it feels fake and prepared (well mostly because it is! lol)
-I hate and try to avoid being the centre of attention, even when I have something I want to say. I'm afraid of asking "stupid questions", even if people claim there aren't any, there are.
-I have very poor verbal communication skills, I stumble over my words and forget my main point and can't think of the right words and use imperfect grammar, even when I'm not nervous (but especially when I am) (though my written skills are excellent, not that you might guess from here, lol) this is probably the weakness that bothers me the most, I wish I could express myself on-the-spot at least as well as the average person!
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Also not sure if the price (120$/year) is worth it or if I can pick up a lot of the skills elsewhere (I've improved and learned a tremendous amount this past year, for example, with practice, and I intend to continue volunteering in the fall to give science presentations to high-school and elementary kids, which should help more).
Any thoughts and/or experience (and/or advice)?