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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:How come some people are very confident when it comes to giving speeches and presentations, but suffer from high anxiety and insecurity when having a dialogue with someone or within a group?
gpt
I think it's because for some people -including me- a crowd that you are presenting or performing to is just a "mass of people". they are too crowded for you to imagine them as individuals at that moment, so you don't feel the anxiety of what do they feel or think about you. When you are talking to a person (or a few people), it takes too much effort to keep track if they are interested, if they are listening, how do they fell about you etc.