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nervous system: A child might enjoy
having new ideas about the world, say,
so she spends a lot of time inside her
head. Or health problems might direct
a child inward, to what’s going on inside
his body.
My fear of public speaking might be
equally complex. Do I dread it because
I’m a high-reactive introvert? Maybe
not. Some high-reactives love public
speaking and performing, and plenty of
extroverts have stage fright; public
speaking is the number-one fear in
America, far more common than the
fear of death. Public speaking phobia
has many causes, including early childhood
setbacks, that have to do with our
unique personal histories, not inborn
temperament.
In fact, public speaking anxiety may
be primal and quintessentially human,
not limited to those of us born with a
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