| The difference between the behaviour of the child and the behaviour of the well-organized adult is the difference between fear and heightened |
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feeling. The child suffered from fear because he did not know what to do. The adult experienced heightened (fear-like) feeling because he did know what to do. Heightened feeling prepares the body for vigorous emergency activity. The feeling results mostly |
| from an increase in the amount of adrenalin supplied to the blood stream. The athlete preparing for a contest has such a feeling. So do we, as speakers, when we anticipate appearing before an audience. Mild arousal may be disrupting and disorganizing and impair, rather than improve, a performance. |
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