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Introduction
If you asked me what I came into
this world to do, I will tell you: I
came to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLA
Fear of public speaking consistently tops every list of human fears.
In an often-cited 1993 study done by the polling firm Bruskin-
Goldring, 45 percent of those surveyed said they feared public
speaking. Thirty percent said they feared death.
In a study of 3,000 Americans published in the Book of Lists
(David Wallechinsky, Little, Brown, 1995), the number one fear
cited by 41 percent of those studied was speaking to an audience.
And a similar study by A. Ronald Seifert of the Behavioral Insti-
tute of Atlanta indicated that “40 million Americans hate speaking
so much, they’d do almost anything to avoid it, and perhaps as many
as 40 million who speak all the time feel anxious and do not want to
give a talk!”
If you are one of those millions who have been plagued all their
lives by fear of public speaking . . . if you feel that fear has impeded
your career and diminished your life...this book can help you.
The Seven Steps to Fearless Speaking explained in these pages
are the culmination of more than 30 years of teaching the art of
communication—at the New School for Social Research in New
York City, at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,
at Hunter and Brooklyn Colleges, in private sessions in my studio,
and in corporate conference rooms all over America.
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2 7 STEPS TO FEARLESS SPEAKING
The Seven Steps . . .
Experience Your Voice,
Get a Response and Structure Your Thoughts,
Establish a Dialogue,
Tap Your Creativity,
Learn to Persuade,
Achieve Your Higher Objective, and
Give the Gift of Your Conviction
. . . are a road map to a place where you can freely and fearlessly say
what you know and what you believe. A place where you can truly
be yourself as a publ