I Hate My Voice!

At least once a week one of my students told me "I hate my voice." This is usually followed by a solemn declaration that somehow all the log entries to distort his voice in a matter unflattering.

What's going on here?

Perhaps you've noticed that when you hear your own voice on an answering machine or a video recording of the house that does not sound at all like you. Actually, it sounds like you, just you who are not accustomed to hearing.

We all make our voice heard in a distorted manner, only that it is not because we have big egos and small. We hear a distorted voice, because we heard the sound distorted bones in our head. We heard our voices inside and outside. The structure of our canteens skulls with our sound and fades in a way that is not for us to hear someone simply through their ears, across the room (which is not exactly using scientific jargon, but that is the science behind the theory)

Often during my workouts while playing a video recording of one of my students, he or she responds with "that's not really the sound." But he or she realizes that when colleagues are videotaped, the sound is heard when the recording is played exactly the same as when the colleague was giving the speech live. The student realizes that there is not nothing wrong with the recording device.

When people tell me they hate their voice, do not lie. But the real problem for most people is that they are only familiar with their voice, and that when they hear their voices for the first time the way others do, the difference in perception is so great that it is shocking.

It 'not like that this disconnection, not the actual quality of their voices that they abhor.

Very few people have mellifluous voices so that they can make a million dollars a year doing voiceovers for commercials. The good news is that there is no need to have a voice like that of a great communicator.

Barbara Walters has a speech impediment, but she makes more than $ 18 million a year, in part, with his voice. Rudy Giuliani has a lisp, but gets paid more than $ 100,000 for the value of an hour's work to give a speech. John McCain has a problem hissing "s", but it is a political and media darling.

If you think your voice is holding you, chances are you are just obsessed with a nonexistent or minor problem.

Get Over It!

Your voice is not bad. If you speak with passion and enthusiasm and you have an interesting message, it is likely that your voice does not prevent you from being a powerful communicator .......