I’ve never heard of this before, but I read here that eating bananas wil help deal with presentation nerves. I can’t for the life of me figure why it might work, but if it does, who am I argue!?!?
Actually, the other ideas on the page are pretty sensible, so there might be something to this one, too. Anyone tried it? Did it work? Anyone know why it might work?
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Bananas have lots of carbs in them, and carbs calm you down. Why carbs calm you down, I’m not entirely sure.
So by that logic I can eat pizza! Yippeeeee!
Strange as it may sound, blowing on a banana helps with presentation nerves. Yes, it may look silly, but the science is sound.
By blowing on a banana, you get control of your diaphragm, which helps calm you.
Don’t have a banana to blow? Relax, and blow your own thumb. Same result, more portable, and much less ridiculous.
Don’t have thumbs? Here’s an even less ridiculous option:
Just take a deep breath, man.
No bananas necessary!
(Stop laughing. This is serious! And by all means, don’t hyperventilate. And don’t blow your banana on stage!)
Thanks Laura.
Recently (at one of our public presentation skills courses) a nutritionist who attended suggested it was particularly useful to eat a banana because a] there was lots of carbohydrate energy and b] it contained the precursors to seratonin (the feel-good hormone).
Hi Simon,
It’s the tryptophan that does the trick - it’s an essential amino acid/precusor to seratonin, and has been found useful as a sleeping aid, as well as being touted as an effective anti-depressant. As well as bananas it’s present in oats, dried dates, milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, red meat, eggs, fish, poultry, sesame, chickpeas, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, spirulina, peanuts and …. chocolate.
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