While I highly recommend improv and consider it one of the best choices I've made with my life, I don't think the benefits translate as easily to public speakin

While I highly recommend improv and consider it one of the best choices I've made with my life, I don't think the benefits translate as easily to public speaking as one might think. A huge chunk of improv is learning to turn your brain off and do what feels natural and obvious. If you follow a couple of rules and have played in enough scenes to get a good feel for it, you're probably not going to create an unwatchable scene. I feel little to no anxiety when I perform improv in front of a crowd, but if I haven't prepared well to give a talk, sometimes the shakes set in. There's just so much more that can go wrong. Regardless, do improv.