Chapter 30 When you are fully prepared, the audience can concentrate

My young friends, anyone can be a great speaker if you follow the right method and prepare well before your speech.Conversely, even if you are the age of a wise man or have a lot of experience, if you are not properly prepared, you will still fail in a speech. Reserve, this is a very fresh name.But it is very important for the speaker!My young friends, anyone can be a great speaker if you follow the right method and prepare well before your speech.Conversely, even if you are the age of a wise man or have a lot of experience, if you are not properly prepared, you will still fail in a speech.

We all know that it is much easier to give speeches that are superficial and to the point than to go deep into the facts and discover the meaning of the speech.It's just that such a speech cannot leave a deep impression on the audience.Therefore, before we give a speech, we must make full preparations in advance. After the topic is determined, we must ask ourselves some questions, such as, "Why should I believe this? In real life, have I seen and Can it be proven that there is no error? What am I trying to prove? How did it happen?" The reason why we ask ourselves such a series of questions is to fill ourselves with a kind of preparedness.This power keeps the listener focused.It is said that Luther Burbank, the geek of the plant world, cultivated a million plant species just to find one or two superlative varieties.The same is true for speeches, gather 100 ideas around the topic, and then discard 90 of them.

John Gander, author of the best-selling book "Inside", said when he described the method of speaking: "I always collect 10 times the material I have to use, sometimes even a hundred times." In 1956, he began to write about mental illness. Academic articles.In order to collect first-hand information, he went to various hospitals and talked with the directors, nurses, and patients respectively.A friend of mine went with him and assisted him in much work.Friends later told me that they walked countless ways from one building to another, along corridors, up and down stairs, day after day.Everywhere Mr. Gander goes, he will record what he sees and feels at any time.In his office, there are piles of government and state reports, private hospital reports, and piles of committee statistics. "In the end," said my friend, "he wrote four short essays, which were simple and interesting, and made good lecture subjects. The few sheets of paper on which the essays were written weighed only seventy or eighty grams. However, those densely packed notebooks and other things - what he used as a basis for the seventy or eighty grams of product must have exceeded nine kilograms."

Mr. Gander knew that what he was digging was a priceless "ore", so he couldn't ignore any part.He must devote all his attention to this until the gold nuggets are sifted out. A surgeon friend of mine said it well: "I can teach you how to take out a cecum in ten minutes, but it will take me four years to teach you how to deal with a mistake." So: Only by careful preparation in advance can we cope with the various changes that may occur during the speech.For example, you were moved by the previous speaker's point of view and had to change the focus of your speech; or during the speech, you paused to answer questions from the audience.Therefore, after you determine your speech topic, you must give full play to your preparation.Don't hesitate until a day or two before your speech to cram.Your subconscious mind can play a huge role for you if you decide on the topic early on.You can think deeply about your subject matter in the trivial time after finishing your work every day, and refine the ideas you want to convey to the audience to make them more refined.As you drive home, wait for the bus, or ride the subway, think about the subject matter of your talk.Facts have proved that the flashes of insight come from these trivial times. Therefore, if you decide on the topic very early, your brain can subconsciously refine it.

Norman Thomas was a world-class speaker, but the audience raised many objections to the political views he presented.Still, he manages to command the audience's attention and admiration with ease.He said: "If a speech is really important, the speaker should be in touch with its theme or content. Thinking it over in his head, he will be surprised to find that whether he is walking down the street, reading a newspaper, or getting ready for bed Or when waking up in the morning, how many examples of his own views and good speech methods flooded him like a tide. Mediocre thinking can only produce mediocre speeches; this inevitable and normal reflection phenomenon is that the subject is not well understood the result of."

Some students once asked such a question. In the preparation stage before the speech, they always wanted to write down the content of their speech.What I want to remind you is that you must not do this, because once you change the content of the speech into a fixed form, you will fall into a misunderstanding and create a feeling of complacency.In this way, you stop thinking more valuable.Also, you may fall into the trap of trying to memorize it.Mark Twain once said: "What is written is not made for speech; the form is literary, blunt and inflexible, and can no longer be conveyed pleasantly and effectively by the mouth. If the purpose of speech is to please the hearers, Not didactic, you need to make them gentle, succinct, colloquial as much as possible, using the way you usually speak without much thought; Make them happy."

Charles F. Gitlin was an inventive genius who made General Motors grow.At the same time, he is also one of the most famous and sincere speakers in the United States.When asked if he had written part or all of his speech, he said: "I believe that what I have to say is too important to put on paper. I need to write every bit of myself. In the minds of the listeners, inscribed in their emotions. There is no room for a little piece of paper between me and what I intend to use to move the audience." One of the reasons why we like watching dramas and movies is that we want to hear true emotional expressions.We are so afraid that our feelings will be revealed in public, so we go to the play to satisfy this need for emotional expression.

If you want to tell your audience the story of the police pulling you over for speeding, you can tell it from the standpoint of a bystander.But when it happens to you, you have a certain feeling, and this feeling will make your speaking more explicit and your expression more effective.The way of the third person cannot leave any impression on the audience.They like to know how you feel when that cop issues you a ticket.So the more clearly you can describe the situation, or reflect how you felt, the more vividly you will be able to express yourself.Therefore, when speaking in public, you have to show your enthusiasm and interest according to your enthusiasm for the content of the conversation.Don't hold back, and don't put an "airlock" on your true and touching enthusiasm.Show your audience how enthusiastic you are about talking about your subject, and their attention will be drawn to you.

When you step onto the podium, you should be full of anticipation for the speech, not like a prisoner about to be "hanged".The brisk pace may be mostly fake, but it can do wonders for the most part, making it seem like you have a strong desire to talk about it.Before speaking, don't lean on the podium, take a deep breath, raise your head, raise your jaw, and tell yourself that you are going to tell the audience something valuable now.Also, maximize your volume as much as possible. If you can transmit the sound to the back of the hall, the sound effect will make you more confident.

Dunard and Eleanor Laird describe these techniques as "warming up our responses."In his book "The Technique of Effective Memory", he pointed out that President Roosevelt was a man who "lived and lived happily, with a kind of joy, vitality, rush and enthusiasm. These were his marks. He was always concerned about everything he dealt with. Interested in things, obsessed, or he pretends to be."In short, keep this sentence in mind: Prepare yourself and you will be invincible.