How to overcome your fear of public speaking and give a great presentation

Gallup says 40 percent of people fear public speaking — and some people fear it more than death. Jerry Seinfeld interpreted this as meaning that at a funeral, more people would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy. A wide variety of studies have crowned fear of public speaking — or glossophobia, for sticklers — as our king of all phobias; according to a 2001 Gallup poll, more than 40 percent of Americans confess to a dread of appearing before spectators. (In some surveys, fear of...