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This still happens, but mostly in proportion to how well prepared I am. Two things that help me guard against it now are:
1) Know the material: Now that I am out of school, I need to be well prepared enough to be able to say to myself "there's nobody in the audience that knows your stuff as well as you."
2) Get used to the feeling: probably like a fighter pilot, performing anxiety manifests itself in physical ways sometimes. The more practice I get, the more I just get used to these feelings and they are easily ignored. Kind of like exercising, where you train a muscle. My stomach starts to sink and I say to myself: "ehhh... big deal..." This took a lot of experience!
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