One of the biggest frustrations I have on my long and slow road to some kind of speech fluency, is the inconsistency.
It kills me that I can give a stutterless, 7 minute speech to twenty people one night, and then the following day be struggling to get out a single sentence to a colleague. After the high, the low is especially disheartening.
The key to all of this, is really to force yourself into 'big picture' thinking. If I graphed my speech fluency over a few days, it would be amazingly up and down and inconsistent. But if I graphed my speech fluency over the past year, it would be a much more steady and promising graph. It's much more useful to think about that, than to dwell on that rubbish conversation I just had with my boss.
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
2 comments:
Your progress is amazing Ben, you should be pleased with how you are going! I would think that as tough as a speech would be, it's quite different to talking to your boss. For one, you know exactly what you're going to say and have a chance to practise it and calm yourself from the nerves. Whereas in a conversation with your boss, there's not only the dynamics of it but also that you have no certainty of where the conversation will go and can't therefore prepare yourself for what you are about to say.
Cut yourself some slack- you've made huge improvements and with continued practise it will get easier!!
Thanks a lot Aimee. I appreciate that.
You are right about cutting myself some slack. I only shoot my own progress in the foot by being such a taskmaster with my conversations.
Thanks again, and love to the fam.
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