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How a presentation about “My Dream Job” changed my life forever.
You know you’re afraid of speaking in front of others, when you simply go “on stage”, you’re shaking like hell, and you suddenly start laughing. Laughing because you can’t be serious. Because you don’t even take yourself serious, neither do you respect yourself for who you are. Sounds very happy, doesn’t it? — Laughing because you’re too idle to accept, that you’re badly nervous, could be better organised and you’re having a huge ego.
That, my friends, is a problem. A problem I know, for sure, having it faced in my own life, when I was a teenager in Grammar School.
My teacher advised me to speak about my dream job. That was the topic that everybody in our class had to prepare for this particular lesson. Ain’t too difficult, isn’t it?
When the final moment came: In an unbelievable time lapse, I went out in front of my classmates, who were used to view me as a shy, quiet outsider that didn’t talk a lot back then. With shaking knees, I gave them a few introducing words. My heart rate turned faster and faster.
During my way to the front I lost unbelievable amounts of sweat. I mumblingly mentioned the topic to the…
