Chapter 83 orgasmic ending

One day I stopped by the industrialist and humanitarian George Jensen and chatted with him for a few minutes.He was the president of Antico Jansen at the time.But what interested me more was that he was a speaker who made his audience laugh and sometimes cry, and who made his speeches stick with them for a long time. He has no private office, just a small corner in his large and busy factory.His demeanor is even more like his old wooden table, sincere and not hypocritical. "You've come just in time," he said, rising to meet me. "I've got a special job to do! I've jotted down the end of my address to the workers tonight."

"It's a great relief to get the whole speech in my head from beginning to end." I said with emotion. "Oh, they're not fully formed in my head," he said. "It's just a general idea, just a particular way I want to summarize it." He was not a professional orator, and he never considered sonorous words or exquisite words.However, he has learned the secret of successful communication from experience.He knew that in order to speak well, it must have a good ending.He understood that to make a strong impression on his audience, the content of the speech must be carried forward logically to the correct conclusion.

Did you ever know what parts of a speech best reveal whether you're an inexperienced novice or an expert?A clumsy speaker, or an extremely skilled one?I tell you, that's the beginning and the end.There is an old saying in the theater that has something to do with actors, and it goes like this: "You can tell whether a man is a good actor by the way he appears and when he leaves the stage." The beginning and the end are almost the most difficult parts of any kind of activity to express skillfully.For example, in a social occasion, isn't it the most skillful performance to enter the venue gracefully and to exit gracefully?In a formal meeting, isn't the most difficult job to win the trust of the other party at the beginning and to end the meeting successfully?

The closing is the most strategic part of a speech.When a speaker leaves, the last few words he said will still echo in the ears of the audience, and these words will remain the longest memory in the hearts of the audience.However, people who are generally beginners in public speaking seldom notice the importance of this point.Their endings are often disappointing. What is the most common mistake they make?Let's take a look to find a remedy. Some people always end their speeches by saying, "That's about all I can say on this subject. So, I think, I should end my speech." Such speakers often release a puff of smoke and say something guilty. "Thank you", I just want to cover up and end my unsatisfactory speech.In fact, such haste is hardly the end.This is definitely a mistake.This will reveal to the audience that you are a novice.It's almost unforgivable.If you've said all you had to say, why not just end your speech and sit down right away instead of saying "I'm done" nonsense!You have to do this, and it will leave a lingering lingering sound for the audience, who will automatically know from your pauses that you have said everything you have to say.

Then there are the speakers who, having said everything he was supposed to say, don't know how to end it.Joss Bliss advises that when catching a cow, one should grab the tail, not the horns, because it is easier to catch. How to improve it?That is, the ending has to be planned in advance.Even some eminent and admirable speakers, such as Webster, Bright, and Greystone, who have achieved great success and have excellent English skills, think that it is necessary to write the ending in full and then memorize it word for word. down. If beginners can imitate their practices, they will no longer feel regret.The beginner must know exactly what he is going to show at the end.He should practice the ending paragraph several times in advance. Of course, he does not have to repeat the same words and sentences every time, but express your thoughts clearly in words and sentences.

If you are speaking extemporaneously, you have to change a lot of material constantly during the speech, and you have to cut some passages, so that you can respond flexibly to unforeseen situations, which also helps you to get in time with the audience's response.Therefore, it is wise to have two or three closing remarks in advance.If one is not suitable, another may be available. Many novice presentations tend to end too abruptly.The way they end is often uneven and lacking in polish.They don't end exactly, they stop abruptly and sharply in the middle of the speech.This approach is unpleasant and shows that the speaker is a complete layman.It's as if during a social conversation the other person suddenly stops talking and dashes out of the room without politely saying goodbye to everyone in the room.

Even a speaker as great as Lincoln made the same mistake in the draft of his first inaugural address.As the speech was delivered, the situation was tense, with dark clouds of conflict and hatred hovering overhead.In the weeks that followed, a storm of blood and destruction erupted across the United States.Lincoln had intended to conclude his inaugural address to the people of the South with the following words: "My fellow disaffected fellow citizens, the solution of the great question of civil war is in your hands, not mine. The government will not scold you. There will be no conflict unless you be aggressors. You There is no inherent oath to destroy the government, but I have the most solemn oath, which is that I will maintain, protect and fight for this government. You can avoid attacks on this government, but I cannot Evasion of responsibility to protect it. Peace or violence? The serious question is in your hands, not mine."

He showed the speech to the secretary of state.The Secretary of State quite rightly pointed out that the ending was too blunt, too reckless, too provocative.So, the Secretary of State tried to modify this ending and wrote two endings for him to choose.Lincoln took one of these and, after a slight modification, used it in place of the last three sentences of the original speech.In this way, his first inaugural speech was less provocative and brash than the original, but more friendly, and displayed his pure beauty and poetic eloquence: "I hate conflict. We are not enemies, we are friends. We must never be enemies. Strong emotions may create tension. But never destroy our emotions and friendship. Mysterious emotions in memory, from every The fields of battle and the graves of patriots extending to every living heart and every family in this vast land will add to the unity of the United States. And then we will, and we will, with our better nature to treat this country."

How does a novice get the right feel for the end of a speech?Should it be based on mechanical rules? No!no.It's like culture, it's such a subtle thing.It has to be something of a feeling, that is, it is almost an intuition.Unless a speaker can "feel" what it takes to perform harmoniously and with great skill, how can you hope to do it yourself? However, this "feeling" can be cultivated, and this experience can also be summed up.You can study the methods of some famous speakers.Here’s an example, from the closing words of the Prince of Wales’ speech at the Empire Club in Toronto:

"Guys, I'm worried. I've lost control of myself, I've talked too much about myself. But I want to tell you that you are the largest audience I've ever spoken in Canada. I have to say , my sense of my own position, and my view of the responsibilities that come with it--I can only assure you that I will always abide by these great responsibilities and try to live up to the confidence you have placed in me. " Even a "blind" listener will "feel" that this is the conclusion.It doesn't dangle in mid-air like an untied rope; nor does it look sprawling and untended.It's well manicured, it's tidied up, and that's the sign: it's time to end.

On the Sunday after the Sixth Congress of the League of Nations, the eminent Dr. Hosteick delivered a speech at the Cathedral of Saint-Pierre in Geneva.The title he chose was - "He who holds a sword will eventually die by the sword".The following is the conclusion of his speech.You feel that what he expresses is so beautiful, noble and powerful: "We must not confuse Jesus Christ with war - that is the crux of the matter. This is the challenge we face today, and it should stir the conscience of Christ. War is the greatest and most destructive social evil ever committed by humanity !This is an act of absolute brutality! In its overall method and effect, it represents everything Jesus did not do, and it represents nothing Jesus said. It very clearly denies the truth about God Every Christian doctrine with man, far beyond even the imagination of all atheists on the face of the earth. To see the Christian Church proclaiming that it is responsible for the greatest moral question of our time, and to see it as in Clear moral standards set forth in the days of our fathers against the heresies of our present age, refusing to subject conscience to some belligerent nation, prioritizing the Kingdom of God over nationalism, and calling the world to seek Peace, is it not of great value? "Here and now, as an American under the roof of the Statue of Liberty, I cannot speak for my government, but as an American and as a Christian, I will speak for my millions Our compatriots spoke, wishing you well on a great task, the great task of giving us confidence in you. We pray for it! We will regret it if it cannot be done. It is consistent—to pursue a peaceful world. There is no better goal than this one worth fighting for. Without this goal, mankind will face the most terrible disaster in history. Just like the law of gravity in physics, in The law of God in the moral sphere knows no boundaries of race or nation: 'Whoever bears the sword shall die by the sword.'” But no conclusion to our recorded speech would be complete without the majestic tone and piano-like melody at the end of Lincoln's second inaugural address.The late Earl Cuzon, former chancellor of Oxford University, once declared that Lincoln's concluding speech "may be ranked in the glory and treasure of mankind... the purest gold of human eloquence, no, it should be regarded as almost sacred eloquence".And listen: "It is our joy to hope, and it is our earnest prayer, that the scourge of this war will soon be a thing of the past. However, if it is God's will that this war be sustained for 250 years by those unpaid slaves If the accumulated wealth is completely exhausted, and lasts until every drop of blood shed by the whip is to be paid for by the blood shed by the sword, then we must also say the same thing 3,000 years ago : 'God's judgment is true and just.' "Be hostile to no one; be merciful to all, stand on the side of the righteous, God guides us to see what is right, and let us do what we are doing now; heal the wounds of this nation; care for the soldiers who died in their service to take care of their widows and orphans—to do all our duty to achieve a just and lasting peace among us, and to extend to the whole world." In my opinion, this is the most beautiful ending to a passage that has ever been uttered by a mortal... Do you agree with me?In the field of speech literature, where can you find a more human, loving, compassionate passage than this one? In The Life of Abraham Lincoln, William Barton said: "The Gettysburg Address was already very noble, but this speech raised it to a higher level... It is the greatest speech of Abraham. , which brought his intellect and spiritual power to the highest level." "It was like a hymn," wrote Carl Schulz. "Never before has an American president spoken such words to the American people. And never has an American president found such moving words in his heart." President." But you don't give a speech in Washington as president, and you don't give a speech in Ottawa or Canberra as prime minister.Maybe your question is just how to end a simple conversation in front of a group of social workers.What should you do?Let's dig a little, and let's see if we can unearth some useful advice.Here are those suggestions: Summarize your point - Even in a short talk of only 5 minutes, the average speaker will unknowingly make the talk so broad that at the end the audience is still wondering what his main point is. Bewildered.Only a very small number of speakers will notice this, though.They have the erroneous idea that since these points are crystal clear in their own minds, they should be equally clear to their listeners.Not so.The speaker has thought about his point of view for a long time, but his point of view is new to the audience.They are like a string of marbles thrown at the audience. Some may land on the audience, but most of them fall scattered on the ground.The audience's feeling may be that a lot of things are remembered, but none of them are remembered clearly. The following is a good example.The speaker was a traffic manager for a railroad company in Chicago: "In short, folks, from our experience with this signaling system in our own backyard, from our experience with this machine in the East, West, and North, it's easy to operate, it works great, plus it works at 1 The money saved by preventing crashes within a year leads me, in my most urgent and candid advice, to immediately implement this machine in our southern branch." Can you see his success?You can see and feel that without hearing the rest of his speech.In just a few sentences, he covered the whole point of his entire speech. Don't you find summaries like this extremely effective?If you feel the same way, then don't hesitate to use this technique.