Hello everybody! I hope everyone is having a lovely day and thank you so much for joining me on my blog once again.
The lectures so far have been really fun, interesting and engaging and I have been really enjoying them. That dreaded alarm that startles me so early in the morning (we all know that awful sound) has been really worth it. Waking up for those 9am lectures are definitely a struggle but I always come out feeling like I have learnt and explored something new as part of my fashion communication and promotion course.
On Thursday we have something pretty daunting coming up. We have to deliver a pitch to some of our classmates and one of our lecturers about the trend 'active', the shop 'Liberty London' and the outcome 'space'. Once again, it was really enjoyable working with my group to come up with a big idea for this pitch. Although, who would have thought that differentiating between an 'idea' and an 'outcome' would be so difficult! I really had to make sure that my brain was switched on and it really strengthened my knowledge on the big difference between the two.
So, you may be wondering why I am mentioning the pitch within this blog post when I could dedicate a different post centred around the pitch itself but the reason why is this. Public speaking can be a very big fear amongst many people and 'fear' is what this blog post is really about.
We had a lecture yesterday all about the concept of fear surrounding things like public speaking as delivering a pitch will be something a lot of people are worried about. The one thing that really stood out to me from this lecture was "feel the fear but do it anyway". I came to the conclusion that this is actually something I do a lot without actually realising that I am doing it. For example, when I first started sixth form, I realised in particular that philosophy and ethics was quite challenging and I felt very daunted by all the content I had to make sure I knew. There was many times when I would have wobbles and really think that I couldn't do it but in fact, I was actually feeling the fear but doing it anyway. This led to me really enjoying philosophy and ethics and I actually quite miss it now, especially the teachers! Also, starting university was one of the biggest times I felt the fear but did it anyway. I very nearly gave up on the whole thing because I missed my old life a lot and I wasn't quite ready to let that comfort blanket go. However, it is starting to turn in to one of my most fond experiences because I sat with that fear but still went for it anyway. I mean, there are still times when I wish I didn't have to do the washing up or something like that... maybe we'll add that to my list of fears ;).
So today I wanted to make this blog post a bit more light hearted and tell you all some of my fears.
1. Swimming underwater has to be one of my greatest fears. To be honest, I don't think I am amazing at swimming in general. Maybe a bit of a breaststroke but that is as far as its going! There is no way you will ever find me with a snorkel on! I think any kind of water sport would terrify me, I've made myself believe that I would definitely drown.
2. I am okay with public speaking but I always fear that I'll go bright red and start breaking out in a bit of a sweat. That can happen sometimes when I feel nervous!
3. I would also say heights is one of my fears. I think I would be absolutely terrified if I had to abseil down a huge building or something like that!
I hope you enjoyed getting a bit of an insight in to some of my fears. Feeling the fear and doing it anyway is something I want to try and do a bit more and thinking to myself, what is the worst that could happen? This was also mentioned in the lecture and it really got me thinking, what really is the worst that could happen? Sometimes we can be really good at convincing ourselves that something really bad will happen but maybe that is just our minds getting the best of us.
Thank you for reading everyone,
Niamh x
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