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This is totally normal. It's very common for people to be more scared of public speaking than of dying, for example; there's no shame in it. It's helpful to be
by lucubratory 3y ago
This is totally normal. It's very common for people to be more scared of public speaking than of dying, for example; there's no shame in it. It's helpful to be aware of, even, because if we know that we're not perfectly "rational" with our fears we can try to compensate.
If there's a referendum between two government policies, the first that every single person had to publicly speak in front of at least ten strangers once a year, that policy would be terrifying and bad to people who don't like public speaking. If the second policy was that every single person should be killed, that might be scary but it's not really as viscerally scary as the forced public speaking madman, at least to a lot of people, and it's also so bad that we have a natural impulse to just reject it as possible.
Nevertheless, if we recognise these impulses in ourselves we can attempt to adjust for them and tick the right box on the imaginary referendum, because even though public speaking is really bad and scary, it's still better than everyone dying.