confessions

gitgud

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My first public speaking class in college, someone was so nervous that they brought in a thermos full of wine, and got hammered before his speech. The room stunk of it sooooo bad. 

Good luck

This happened to me and my bff when we auditioned to The Amazing Race. 

Auditions were on stage in front of everyone at the largest shopping center in the state. There was a massive crowd and we were nervous af. 

While waiting for our turn, we found a bar and took a shot to calm our nerves. 

The wait was a lot longer than planned, one shot turned into many, and well, let's just say we were shockingly not chosen to be on the show.

That’s hilarious. 😆 

The speech was supposed to be “informative.” I thought that doing a speech about how not to be nervous while publicly speaking was brilliant. Problem was, speaking about nervousness made me nervous. I choked, and did worse than the drunk kid. And it was like, obviously what you just said doesn’t work

I did a speech about the corporate structure of Starbucks. Long story short, I used a Chai latte as a prop, and would take sips of it in front of the class. I had spiked it with coffee liqueur though. So, yeah, it can help. I didn’t really need it, by then it wasn’t a big deal to speak in front of ppl. It was for the story.

Anyway, good luck today, sparky

Being drunk is a sure fire way not to be nervous for public speaking. He def had the leg up on you 😆