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      ButternutSquash
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      Hey guys, as a management student I come across situations where I am expected to speak about topics without any preparation. To be honest I suck at it. I stutter, with red face, shaky hands & legs, trying to be perfect I just mess it up more. HELPPP MEEE….

      Also can anyone give me some links with lots of topics to prepare. I have one day after tomorrow. Please wish me luck:sad::sad::sad::sad:

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      • IrishLuigi
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        Prozac.

        Only thing I can think of.

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        • Gekko135
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          Hmm no preparation eh?

          Well, I take it the idea of doing this is so that you have a good understanding of what you're talking about anyway.

          Or at least that's my guess.

          Best advice is to just wing it. Really. That's what I do.

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          • Akumu
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            I am a history education student, so I can sort of tell where you're coming from, as occasionally in class I'll be called on to teach a topic I may not know that much about, or haven't studied up on in a while.

            Well, for the nerves part…I used to be really bad with handling pressure, and I could never give a speech prepared or otherwise. What I did to fix that, and this is gonna sound really strange, is get into magic. I learned to good card tricks and started doing them for my close friends, and then for people i knew, and then for strangers. The pressure you have on you when doing a magic trick is intense. People are going to be burning your hands and you have to stay calm. At first the stage fright will be bad, but you'll get comfortable with it. and one of the best things is that someone will ask you to do a trick when you're not necessarily planning on doing one, so you'll kind of have to run through something that you know on the fly.
            And one of the best things I learned is that by trying to be perfect I just mess up more. If I'm relaxed and just go with it I find I do better at both the lessons and magic. Basically, if you're confident in what you're saying a doing, the audience is going to accept it, but if you doubt yourself, the audience will doubt you as well.

            Like I said, it's a strange way, but it worked for me...

            As for the topics, all I can tell you is what I can find on google, so I figure that won't be much help.

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            • Monkey King
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              I love extemporaneous speaking and despise having to prepare speeches, I hope I can help on this.

              I don't know how it would be in management but try and get yourself involved ….emotional-mentally in what you're doing. Care about it. This is like fuel to push you on through.

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              • Don Quichotte De Flamingo
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                Sooo… how was it?
                Did you manage to stutter something,Butternut?

                Unrevealed_Loki/Rocks/Im-san_

                IslandElbaf/Raftel/GodValley

                UnresolvedWeevil´s plan/Explaining DFs/Deal with Kuma-Bonney´s past/Joy-Boy/Zunisha´s story/Rocks flashback/Void Century/Rioponeglyph/Uranus/the D.clan

                DFWind/Metal/Acid/Liquid/Time-Stop

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                • Airflow
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                  I generally just wing speeches like this so I don't have too much advice to give you. Are you speaking in front of a bunch of people you know well or is it more formal than that? Cause I find the best thing to do is treat it like it's no big deal, like it's a practice run or something. As Akumu says, if you stop trying to be so perfect then it'll come out a lot better.

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                  • Smudger
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                    The English have made this into an art-form.

                    We even have a word for it known as "blagging". Not to mention a board game….

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