What do you do if you're nervous before a TV interview or a media interview? The conventional wisdom is visualize success. drink green tea, envision the reporter in their underwear, something like that all a bunch of nonsense in my view, the number one way to reduce your nerves is to simply practice the interview. on video, use your own cell phone. You've heard me say this throughout the course. Apologies I realize it's repetitive and yet most people in the world never do this.
So I wanted to mention it in the Frequently Asked Questions section as well. If you want to get over nervousness, you have to go to the root cause the cause of the nervousness is fear that Hmm, maybe I'm gonna say something stupid. Maybe I don't really know how this is coming across. Maybe I look nervous, scared uncomfortable. Well, you might the solution is to have evidence that you don't look stupid or nervous or uncomfortable. have evidence You actually have great answers regardless of the questions.
And these days, it's very easy to do it, pull out your cell phone, use a laptop, iPad, webcam and just practice your interview again and again until you love it. If you do that, I know you don't want to do it. If you do that, your nerves will melt away. I promise you this