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How your nervous system is sabotaging your speaking

By: Dante St James Published on: 17/06/2025

Your brain perceives that microphone as a charging predator. Glossophobia—an estimated 75 per cent of us fear public speaking—doesn’t originate from thoughts of audience judgement but from an ancient fight-or-flight reflex misreading a simple stage as a life-or-death scenario.