Some people never conquer or can control their stage fright, ever. It is no disgrace to accept that that one cannot perform in front of an audience without stage fright and to confine ones activities to private performances. It takes courage to abandon the dream of performing well in public. In the UK the Folk Clubs a full of floor singers who suffer intensely with stage fright and week after week, year after year they inflict their dreadful performances on people without ever improving. We have all encountered them. By all means people should try and they should be offered the opportunity and environment to try, but at the same time they owe it to themselves, after a reasonable period, to admit they don't have what it takes - a personal disapointment maybe, but no disgrace and none of us will think any the less of them. Not all of us can be great cricketers, or novelists or surgeons or performers of music and song, we have to accept that.