Impact, 2nd Edition

Chapter 10

No more dull

presentations

–

speaking in

public with

impact

‘The brain is a wonderful organ, it

starts working the moment you are

born and does not stop working until

you stand up to speak.’

Anon

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lying, spiders, heights – people have all sorts of phobias. But

the biggest of all, affecting as many as 75 per cent of adults,

is glossophobia – the fear of public speaking. The word

comes from the Greek glosso, meaning tongue and phobos, meaning ...