
A World in Transition: Insights from Transition Hub – Collaborating with Your Nerves
Performance anxiety, stage fright, nerves, butterflies, brain freezes are more common than you think. Estimates place it as high as 73% of the population experience glossophobia (the fear of public speaking) and it is one of the highest experienced phobias in the developed world. Commonly, we accept the explanation that performance anxiety is part of the human fight and flight and freeze response. In that when we are separated from our tribe, even to the extent of standing in