"I have found that many high performers use the mental rehearsal skill of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen."
In the bathroom, in bed, in the dining room, outdoors, in the car or in the family room. Anywhere is great for that. Go ahead and do it! No shame. Disintegrate, let your hair down, enjoy it without shame. Obviously I mean practice your speech. Yes, your speech, or that conversation you want to have with your boss next Monday.
After writing and outlining our ideas, now it's time to practice, rehearse and review. We are actors, the main characters of our film. As you may have noticed in the chapter and lesson titles, I take public speaking as a branch of acting, in fact it is, just like voice-over. We use a script, we utter words and silences; our voice (which must have nuances, intonations, projection) and the gestures on our face and the rest of our body are present in 93% of our presentation.
When we begin to see public speaking as a mini movie, perhaps we will begin to take more pleasure in it, after all, many of us have the fantasy of being actors or appearing on television. So I invite you to visualize that movie, think about it, believe it in your mind, practice it there alone, with yourself. Imagine that you are in the place of your presentation.
And of course, rehearse your play anywhere and with anyone. When you meet your friend at the university cafeteria, tell him about that radio show you're preparing or the exhibition you have next week. You go in your car and there's a huge traffic jam? No problem! Call your grandmother and tell her about that sales presentation you have in two days. The point is to always talk about it, with your friends, in the bathroom in front of the mirror or by videotaping yourself with your cell phone in your room when you're home alone. Remember, wherever and however.
"Even if we forget everything we have read so far, let us remember this: the first method, the only method, the method that never fails to develop self-confidence when speaking in public, consists of speaking. The whole problem, in fact, is finally reduced to a single point, which is essential: practice; practice; practice."
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G. S. Bilbao
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It can be a good technique this of visualization, well on track works, of course it does. Unless the person doing it is extremely anxious, and rather sees everything as a disaster in the future.
But indeed, it is something that can work.
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