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Originally Posted by cantstopcrying
See, I can't do that because if I do happen to deviate from the text I wrote and rehearsed, I stumble and freeze and panic.  I tried that with my first speech and it was horrible. It's that OCD/perfectionist thing in me that said it had to be exactly as written. After that, I wrote "talking points" and rehearsed over and over and over and because each rehearsal was a little different, I was ok with it varying a bit when I gave it. Isn't it funny how we all do the same things so differently |
That's really interesting. Ah the varied and fascinating world of OCD!
I was just trying to think why I don't feel that way about being perfect with the exact text. I guess for me I think that sounding natural is the goal, not reading, so the perfectionist part is necessarily to not be exact but to be convincing.
But I'm not really a perfectionist, just completely, completely unable to speak off the cuff. Rehearsal is a thing for me. So much so that I rehearse after the fact. That'd be the "C".