Week 9 Post 3

Kay Rollins and I are pretty good friends. We met my freshman year when I was not a particularly outstanding speaker and she had already been to the most prestigious invitational tournament in the country, MBA. I found Kay's journey through speech and debate really interesting because she credits most of her interest in public speaking to people around her like her father, her brother, and her coach. Then it occurred to me that her experience may be a sign that public speaking can not only be improved by having more experience with it but may also become more inviting as people have more experience with it. That belief is corroborated by my class in which our instructors argued that people with communication anxiety may find that their fears about speaking may lessen the more that they do speaking. That finding may be extrapolated to show that people who feel lukewarm about speaking may grow to really enjoy it the more they do it which I can definitely say has been my personal experience with public speaking.
My question for Kay (besides all of the ones I already asked her) would be whether or not she'd do speech if her dad and brother weren't as in to it. It's hard for me to imagine her not doing speech because shes just so good at it but she really only does it because of her family. I wonder how many people like her there are who have the capacity to be great at public speaking but don't because they're afraid to or because nobody around them is a public speaker.

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