Practices

Say the difficult sentence out loud, on your feet, in something like the real conditions. Thinking it through in your head is a different skill from getting it out of your mouth when your pulse is up.

Acting it out feels awkward and that awkwardness is part of why it works: the version of you who has to speak is the aroused one, so that is the…

The hidden finger tap is weaker than a mark on paper. Better to know that now than to find it out when it fails you.

A written page holds you to it. The marks are still there afterwards, and there is no pretending you drifted for ten minutes. So learn it that way…

It helps to get one real taste of this early, in a single sitting, rather than waiting weeks to find out whether any of it is for you.

A first go that actually works gives you a reason to come back, and plenty of people never do come back. But one sitting builds nothing on its own.…