Table Topics scare me

The scariest part of a Toastmasters meeting to me is Table Topics.

Table Topics is a segment in every Toastmasters meeting whereby people volunteer to come up to the front and speak off-the-cuff for two minutes on a given topic.

It teaches you to think on your feet.

What's scary about it is not that your mind might draw a blank. That rarely happens. The scary thing about Table Topics is that it might just expose your innermost thoughts.

If you are racist, for example, or you have a problem with the boss or are obsessed with sex or, for women, you think all men are useless pigs, those things might come out during your Table Topic speech.

You may not say them out right, but people get the drift from you anyway.

Which is why, we should be mindful of what we think about most of the time.