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"don't aspire to be JFK on your first shot."

Thats interesting. Public speaking advice from politicians would be awesome. They have to deliver moving speeches and be able to respond intelligently on the spot to questions they haven't heard before. I'm sure they would have a lot of great advice on how to deal with stage fright and think clearly in those situations.



Such random advice won't work because it's training and practice. One of my clients back in the day was an ex bigcorp spokesperson who trained polititians and management teams. On the course of the training there were simulations with cameras, strong lighting and pro journalists involved. One weekend of such training costs a few thousand per person, but after that they are sure they won't shit their pants when 20 journalists and cameramen jump them out of their office door asking why their product just killed 30 people.

Besides, polititians have teams who prepare everything regarding their image, speech, questions and responses, so they can focus on performing.


don't get me wrong, regardless of ideology preached. Speech Methods used by JFK were top notch. This can be proven by the fact, that his acceptance speech is part of linguistic/rheatoric courses around the world.




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