When will YOU learn to speak for yourself?
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ANSWER: When you have something to respond to!   IMWORDS, (don't waste me)!
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PRACTICE, i know uve heard it a million times.By now you expect yourself to stammer. you are going to need to do alot of talking to yourself practice getting it right when theres no audiance, plan what u are gonna say and pactice just being able to get it done. then mov on to publick stuff, MAKE yourself speak up in groups. and remember that everyone has problems, you arent gonna get thr over night, but one of the best publick speakers ive ever heard STAMMERED a little during his speach, i met him aftrward, and he said about what you said in your question. it had been a life long struggle for him too.
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Get ready with your speech beforehand Try giving the sppech in front of your close friends. Do formulate your strategy like what will be the beginning, the middle and lastly the conclusion. Try modulation of your voice  which sentence to speak forcefully and which in lower tone.
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Just be yourself and talk about issues that you think are important.
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Not if the other person shows they knew what you were going to say. The problem is when people are not listening, and they interrupt you to say what they want.
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Actually, that is not a stupid question at all.  People are always saying "be yourself," without specifying how you will know what that feels like.  It's not easy, actually, because we are influenced by so many outside forces that it is hard to know when your behavior comes from your own choices and when it comes from peer pressure, etc.  The best I can say is that as you grow older, you will detect a certain consistency in how you behave when you are in a comfortable setting, when you do not feel any pressure to be artificial.  It would be easy if "yourself" was who you were when you were alone.  But of course, you do naturally and appropriately behave differently around other people than when you are alone.  \n\nWhat can I say?  Relax!
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open up and listen. You have to understand yourself to understand others. Sometimes none of us make sense.
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We have to learn to be ourselves.  Accept who we are, and do unto others.
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May not be right away at the beginning because you don't want to tell them but later on you may eventually tell them pieces by pieces during the daily conversation.  So depending on yourself and your personality.
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say myself isnt that enough
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You never know what you can do until you try to put your all into it.  First of all \n\nBELIEVE IN YOURSELF...SHOW CONFIDENCE....NO ONE WILL BELIEVE IN YOUR MESSAGE IF YOU DON"T BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.  I recently started speaking, it was my first time two years ago, I  practiced.... I had to speak in order to pass my college classes...I GOT A 98 on an Anatomy Presentation\n\nBut I practiced, practiced, practiced, knew my message inside out, no one could ask a question about  my subject Strabismus and throw me off guard.\n\nNow I recite poetry, and even minister at church\n\nAND I WAS BETTER THAN I EVEN DREAMED....AND AFTER SPEAKING AND BEING ABLE TO DO IT SO WELL, I FOUND OUT I ENJOYED IT , AND FOUND OUT PEOPLE ENJOY HEARING ME SPEAK\n\nKNOW WHAT YOU"RE TALKING ABOUT-SO YOU CAN BE PERSUASIVE....\nNever let anyone catch you off guard, and don't appear to be confused yourself\n \nLET PEOPLE EXPERIENCE YOUR PASSION FOR LAW THROUGH YOU SPEAKING!!! \nYOU CAN DO IT!!!!!   RELAX, wipe that sweat from your palms and take control!\n\nYou can start out by looking over the audience, like towards a back wall, and it'll appear as though your're looking at the audience build up your confidence,\nfind a face that you feel comfortable with, look for attentive people.  That should put you in control.  Giving presentations is all about being in control, you demand everyone's attention, and it's your moment to shine.
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you can't. suck it up, use all of your confidence, and yes, be yourself. relax to seem easy going. most of the time the first word is the hardest. you'll be fine.
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TALK REALLY LOUD!!! OR start using sign language
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instead of waiting to speak, learn to listen to others.  Actually reflect on what they have just said and see what IMPORTANT contributions you can bring into the conversation.  Stay away from speaking about yourself, that only makes you boring.  Speak with confidence and bring about only positive reflections, negativism will make you a turn off.  People want to be with and speak to positive people who listen to them and with whom they can have genuine conversations.
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Yes, you can help it.  Conversation is talking AND listening.  At the next opportunity make a focussed effort to talk as little as possible.  This will be hard.  Very hard.  Don't start talking just because no one else is speaking.  When you do talk, keep it short and to the point.  When you think you need to say just one more thing, Don't!  Save it for the next time you talk.\n\nThis will be excruciating the first time you do it.  But as you do it more you'll be amazed by three things: 1] other people are [almost] as smart as you are;  2] people will pay greater attention to what you say; and 3] other people will say what you were thinking, but when they say it, it sounds kinda stupid.  Which it would have sounded had you said it.\n\nIt only took me about 15 years to figure this out, but it's made a huge difference in both what I can get done, and the respect I [and my work] get.
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BE yourself! Do what you want to do.
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I see that stimulating work with people. Talking interacting actually helps one grow taller, better voice, higher IQ. If you are less than 18, keep reading, exercising, learning. It may do more for you than you think. Even things like beard growth, deepness/richness of the voice, intellect.