How do you feel about public speaking?

I hate it. I think I’ve said this before, maybe on the podcast, but I am very, very bad at public speaking – it makes me anxious and uncomfortable for days ahead of time, and I am one of those nervous speakers who gulps in the wrong places and perspires a lot. Performance is very much not for me, at least not in a live setting, which I wish was not the case; being a good public speaker, like being able to play a musical instrument, is one of those skills that I desperately wish I possessed, yet not enough to actively do something about.