Time to Find a New Weakness

After completing my third and finally full class presentation, I think it might be time for me to pick a new weakness. Before this class, I absolutely hated public speaking. If you had told me that I was going to have to teach 3 full hour and twenty minute long classes, I probably would have looked at you, laughed, and immediately dropped the class. To be fair to myself I did know that I was going to have to do this before the drop deadline, but I saw how much this class could offer me and I swallowed my pride and stuck with it.
Even my first presentation I was extremely nervous. After yesterday, I feel so much more confident speaking in front of a group of people. I wondered if this was just because of how well I have gotten to know everyone. But yesterday I also had a presentation right after our class. Even in front of a class probably five times larger than ours, I felt astronomically more confident speaking. I can compare how I felt last semester in front of my whole major in a mock debate and how I felt yesterday. I feel like a completely new person. I certainly could improve my public speaking skills from here but this class has given me the foundation to finally feel confident.
I googled statistics on fear of public speaking. On statisticbrain.com, they cited a study done by the National Institute of Mental Health which found that 74% of people suffer from speech anxiety. I then read an article from Forbes called "Why We Fear Public Speaking and How to Overcome It". Nick Morgan says that 10 percent of people really love public speaking, 10 percent physically cannot even think about it, and the other 80 lie in the middle of experiencing some anxiety but knowing it won't kill them. Whichever of these two statistics you believe is more accurate, clearly a lot of people really do not enjoy it.
For the standard "what is your weakness?" interview question, I might have to find a new answer.