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Hello Andrew,
I watched your video you posted on your website. I commend you for actions in speaking at toastmasters. And doing very well at it. My wife thinks your speech is perfect by the way.
I want to share with you some of my own experiences, items that might be relevant to a person like yourself who has reached a very strong level of fluency.
I used a technique like yourself, I ingrained it to such a level that it was deep within my sub-conscious mind. every word I spoke automatically was spoken with the technique.
However what I found was my technique was suppressing any forms of feelings I had about the situation. It also limited my word output rate and energy to a level I was emotionally comfortable with.
My fluency remained at 100% because that was the pace of my technique. And the level of comfort I could place myself in. Then one day I decided to test my breaking point, find out where it was. So I went all out to break my technique to test how really strong it was.
And yes I broke it in a spectacular way, and from there I learned what it really was.
I don't use a technique any more, I continuously place myself in situation until I stutter, then work on reinforcing where I crack. So now I stutter more by ratio than I ever did before. But I don't see stuttering in the same way as most people do now.
We stutter for a valid reason, if you suppress your stutter with a technique you are not addressing the causes of why you stutter in the first place. Its telling you something very important and you have chosen to silence it because you don't want to know.
Anyway, enough said. I just want to share my experience with you, seeing as you have got so far. And at the end of the day, like its been said on this group, its making the effort physically that matters.
Regards,
Max Stringer. |
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