Do you enjoy public speaking?

[Hygro]

4 Poll options:

1) Enjoy it - it's doable and fun
2) Neutral - I can do it, but I'm not a fan
3) Really uncomfortable and scared of it - very hard to do
4) Terrified and hate it - only in the rarest of rare circumstances would I ever or could I ever publicly speak.

 

[Synobun]

I hate it, especially if there are friends in the crowd making monkey faces.

 

[puglover]

For some reason I find public speaking a lot easier than making conversation. Weird.

 

[downtown]

I'm a performer at heart, so as long as I've prepared myself, I enjoy public speaking...I just look at it as an extension of performing, not all that different from playing music for people.

 

[Bast]

I used to be terrified of it when I was a teenager but now I love it.

 

[Hygro]

this has to be the weirdest sample ever.


The majority of Americans (which I'm sure aren't that different from the civf population) fall into the bottom 2 catagories. It might even be vast majority.

But awesome.

I too enjoy public speaking, a lot. It's my thing, really. I'll be giving a speech to a advisory comittiee this tuesday in the capitol (California), another two for a public speaking course on thursday. And yesterday I got to hear an excellent couple speeches as it was Obama's Oakland appearance (Obama was great, and the Oakland mayor, introducing the introducer, was pretty cool too, though not why I came).

 

[Wolfe Tone]

No, I hate it. However if I had access to an autocue I wouldn't mind nearly as much

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Mildly uncomfortable but stoic?

 

[Cuchullain]

I used to hate it, but now enjoy speaking publicly. As I've gotten older, I've become more egocentric, anyway, and find I don't value other people's opinions as much as I used to.

 

[Truronian]

Don't like it, but generally don't suck at it either.

 

[Volum]

I have presented prosjects and such for people pretty important people, and as long you are prepared and know what your talking about it turns out fine. Most of the time i get positive remarks from the people who had to listen to me.

 

[Yoda Power]

Sometimes I enjoy it a lot, at other times I panic. I guess it has somethnig to do with who's listening, and how well prepared I am.

 

[Captain2]

well I'm only good at public speaking if I dont have a script, otherwise I focus on reading instead of projecting and the tone of my voice

also, oddly enough, AFTER i'm done i get nervious, not before

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I am terrified of it. Altough in the last couple of years it hasn't been as terrifying as before.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I'm terrified of doing it. Couldn't stand it in school, can't stand it now. That said, I'm really good at it, which is a bit odd.

 

[amadeus]

It's fine if it is done on a topic that I can relate to. If I'm asked to speak about, say, basketball in Paraguay, I probably wouldn't want to talk about that.

 

[Mise]

I can't stand it, and would do everything in my power short of chopping my own member off to get out of it.

 

[colontos]

I teach in university, so it's no problem for me, and is often quite fun.

 

[Elrohir]

I've actually discovered that I am a fair public speaker, and that it's actually rather fun.

 

[skadistic]

I can do it easily and am rather good at stirring up a crowd. But I wouldn't say its fun nor do I go out of my way to do it.