When people are asked what scares them most, public speaking is at the top of the list for most of them, scarier even than death. I thought the same when I was a kid. Speaking when someone else listened was so scary I would rather die than read my homework in class.
As you know, singing is great fun. We all have images of people singing in the shower. Or standing in front of the mirror and having the time of their life singing at the top of their lungs and making faces. Yet, as soon as we include an audience in this image, we freak out and all the happy faces fade.
And it doesn’t really matter whether you have public speaking skills, or you can sing. You just get up on that stage and your brain shuts down.
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