Building Your Confidence

Chapter 2 discusses self-efficacy, or your ability to predict your likelihood of success in a given situation. If you believe that you cannot succeed at giving a speech, asking someone for a date, or interviewing for a job, you’re more likely to avoid such communication. In any of these examples, performance visualization can help you manage your thoughts so that you can achieve your goals.

Most people can cope effectively with periodic bouts of public speaking anxiety by applying the following advice, which can also be employed for more general cases of communication apprehension.

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