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06.26.2006

Fear

We all fear some­thing, be it death, snakes, spi­ders, etc. My fear is pub­lic speak­ing. As Franklin Delano Roo­sevelt once said, though, “the only thing to fear is fear itself.“
I con­quered my fear by giv­ing a pre­sen­ta­tion at the Geor­gia Edu­ca­tional Advance­ment Coun­cil Sum­mer Con­fer­ence at Augusta State Uni­ver­sity this past Fri­day. I’m still amazed I agreed to speak at the engage­ment with so lit­tle time to pre­pare, but given the topic — New Media 101 (Blogs, Wikis, Cha­t­rooms, and more) — I felt like I could han­dle it. In atten­dance at my work­shop were 40–50 Uni­ver­sity Sys­tem of Geor­gia employ­ees from insti­tu­tions all over the state. I had no idea what their depth of knowl­edge would be, no idea what the for­mat of the dis­cus­sion would be… I just showed up to do my best. A few min­utes in, it was pretty evi­dent that there would be a con­sis­tent back and forth between what I was pre­sent­ing and ques­tions from the atten­dees. This worked out perfectly.

I was wor­ried going in about doing well, mis-speaking, get­ting some­thing fac­tu­ally wrong, etc. — but in the end, I did okay. I built all of these “worse case sce­nar­i­oes” up in my mind try­ing to defeat myself before I even got started. As my boss told me before going into this… “You’re the expert here. You know this stuff. You’re going to do alright.” And he was right.

I sur­vived the pre­sen­ta­tion, got over my fears of speak­ing in pub­lic, and sent peo­ple on their way equipped with the knowl­edge I shared in my pre­sen­ta­tion. Thank God. :)

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