Three Secret HACKS to Appear More Confident While Public Speaking

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I memorized my speech when practicing, but today I completely forgot what I was going to say and I fumbled my speech. Then I called quits because I didn't know what to say. I was so nervous by knees were shivering. This is my first tournament please help me improve.

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Three things: 1 - This is your first tournament. It’s not going to be perfect. My first speech tournament I was absolutely horrendous. I was supposed to speak about the economy and instead talked for 4 minutes about Spongebob. It’s going to be ok - the important thing is that you try to get better each time. 2 - Use this experience as fuel to practice even more next time. My guess is you did it once or twice kind of from memory, maybe with stumbles here and there or a couple quick glances at your paper, and said “Ive practiced and have it memorized.” Now you know for next tournament you need to practice even more. I guarantee if you come to the next tournament 100% perfectly memorized and rehearsed, your nerves will ho away. 3 - For the rest of today, maybe bring a notecard up with you with the main bullet points of your speech so if you get stuck, you can look back as a quick reminder.

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@@justincooperspeech thank you very much