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Chapter 4 of 10
Delivery
Voice, pace and pauses.
The basics
Speak more slowly than feels natural, pause after important points, and vary pitch. Filler words mostly disappear when you become comfortable with silence.
- A pause feels much longer to you than to the audience.
- Look at individual people for a few seconds each, not at the back wall.
Nerves
Physical arousal is normal and largely invisible. Rehearsing aloud several times is the intervention with the best evidence; deep breaths before starting help the voice.