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lil  ·  4454 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lil's Book of Questions: Why Is Public Speaking So Difficult?

You're lucky you had that teacher. From time to time, I have a student who gets up to speak and cannot say a word. It turns out that they blew a speech in a primary school grade or high school and decided never to speak again. I encourage them not to let their eight-year old self make decisions for their 22-year-old self -- or not to let the teacher they hated in grade 5 continue to control them in college.

That seems to be a transformative idea.