It’s almost impossible to be yourself in front of 200 faceless people when you are a nervous wreck. Yet we get this advice a lot, don’t we? If I recall, I did rant about it in a spoof video here.

However recently, I decided to give this advice a 2nd chance. It happened during my judging at one of the college’s speech competition. The winner wasn’t exactly eloquent or funny. He hasn’t gone through any formal speech training yet he stood out among the rest of his contestants. I suspect it was because of his PERSONALITY. He was real and imperfect which makes it easy for his audience to relate to.

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