If you’re afraid of public speaking, thinking about the RMS Titanic may not exactly put your mind at ease. But keeping the famous maritime disaster in mind is exactly what Vice President Kamala Harris advised when a young supporter asked her secret to great public speaking back in 2019.
In a clip that is recirculating on TikTok, Harris — who delivered a speech to wrap the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night — tells a group of teenagers that the key to overcoming fear onstage is remembering that “it’s not about you.”
Rather, she says, imagine you’re on the Titanic and you’re the only one who knows the ship is about to sink.
“Are you going to worry about how you look and how you sound? No, because the thing that’s most important is that everyone knows what you know, because they need to know what you know,” Harris says.
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