Chapter 77 organize longer speeches

Speaking is a purposeful journey, and you must chart your itinerary beforehand.If a person starts somewhere casually, he usually doesn't go very far before stopping there. I wish a quote from Napoleon would be painted in a foot-high fiery red lettering and hung over the doors of every classroom on earth where students are taught speech.This sentence is: the art of war is a science, without planning and thinking, you can never succeed! What he said also applies to speeches.Do all speakers understand this—or, if they do, do they often act on it?not necessarily!Many speakers spend no more time planning and arranging than cooking a bowl of Irish stew.

Novices who are new to public speaking seldom plan in advance.Planning in advance takes time, requires serious thinking, and requires strong willpower.Thinking with your head is a painful process.Invention King Edison once copied a famous quote from Sir Reynolds and nailed it to the wall of his factory: "The only way to succeed is to think hard, there is no shortcut." But the inexperienced novice often begs for a momentary inspiration, only to find himself often "astray, full of pitfalls and temptations along the way." The late Lord Northcliff, from a small clerk with a meager weekly salary, finally became the richest and most influential newspaper owner in the British Empire through hard work.He said that a sentence from the French philosopher Pascal that most contributed to his success was:

"Plan ahead to get ahead." It's also an excellent motto to keep on your desk when you're planning a presentation.Be sure to plan in advance how to start your speech, because at this time the audience's mind is still blank and able to remember every word you said.Also pre-plan what impression you will make on the listener at the end, because after that there is nothing against him. How to arrange a set of speeches with the best ideas and the most effective way?No one can tell without researching it.It is always a new question, one that every speaker should ask himself and answer over and over again.We cannot come up with infallible rules for this.Still, we can point out that there are three stages that are important in giving a longer speech: attention-grabbing, body text, and conclusion.Each of these three stages has its time-honored method, which can be used as a reference and play.