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Chapter 8 better strengthen personality

Typhoon and personality are the key to the success or failure of a speech.Only by adopting a natural and sincere attitude can we gain the trust of the audience. Typhoon and personality are the key to the success or failure of a speech.Only by adopting a natural and sincere attitude can we gain the trust of the audience. The Carnegie Institute of Technology conducted an intelligence test on 100 famous business people.The content of this test is similar to that used by the Army during the war.After the research institute got the results, it solemnly announced: Among the various factors of career success, personality is more important than IQ.

The implications of this result are enormous: important for business people, but also important for educators and professionals, and especially for speakers. Besides preparation, personality is probably the most important factor in a speech.The famous speaker Albert Hubbard once said: "It is the attitude of the speech that wins the trust of the audience, not the words and sentences of the speech." Something elusive, like the scent of violets, is beyond the grasp of even the ablest analyst.It is the sum total of a person: physical, spiritual, psychological; heredity, hobbies, tendencies, temperament, thoughts, energy, experience, training, and all living conditions, and it is not a simple addition, it is A comprehensive presentation.As complex as Einstein's theory of relativity is, it's also only understood by a handful of people.

Personality is determined by genetics and environment, and once formed is difficult to change.We can strengthen it, make it more powerful, more attractive.In any case, we should make better use of this rare gift that nature has given us.This goal is very important to each of us.While the chances of improvement are slim, there's still something to talk about.
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