In May 2020 there was a BBC documentary titled Football, Prince William and our mental health. You can watch a video clip. There was an article by Stephanie Petit in People on May 28, 2020 titled Prince William’s secret contact lenses trick helped him overcome ‘anxiety’ about public speaking.
It revealed:
"My eyesight
started to tail off a little bit as I got older, and I didn’t use to wear contacts
when I was working, so actually when I gave speeches I couldn’t see anyone’s
face," Prince William, 37, said. "And it helps, because it’s just a
blur of faces and because you can't see anyone looking at you — I can see
enough to read the paper and stuff like that — but I couldn’t actually see the
whole room. And actually that really helps with my anxiety."
Opinions about blurring the audience varied. At Extra.ie on May
28, 2020 an article by Louise Burne was titled Prince William reveals brilliant
trick he used to overcome public speaking fear. But at Woman & Home the
same day another article was titled Prince William reveals bizarre trick for
overcoming his fear of public speaking.
I think not having eye contact with the audience is a bad
idea. If you can’t see them, then you have to depend on someone else to let you
know whether people have hands raised to ask questions. The cover story in the December
2013 issue of Toastmaster magazine was an article by Ruth Nasrullah on page 22
titled The Eyes Have It.
Also, if you are a political figure (like a prince) people
may throw things at you (such as shoes or milkshakes) so you need to see clearly
in order to duck. An image of an audience from Wikimedia Commons was blurred
using a filter in Adobe Photoshop Elements.
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