Chapter 44 sincerely compliment the audience

Therefore, when you compliment your audience, be sure to be 100 percent sincere.If you are not sincere enough, you may be able to deceive a few people, but you will never deceive the audience. We all know that the audience is made up of individual individuals, so the audience's response is the same as the individual's response.If you dare to criticize the audience openly, it will inevitably lead to dissatisfaction and resentment of the group.If you compliment them on something commendable they do, you earn a "passport" to their hearts and minds.But this also requires you to study carefully, because if your compliments are some exaggerated and nasty words, such as "You are the most intelligent audience I have ever faced", it will also be considered empty by most audiences disgusted by flattery.

To quote the great speaker Giancy M. Depp: You have to "tell them something about them that they didn't think you might know".For example, a man recently had to give a speech at the Kewanee Club in Baltimore, but he could not find any special information about the club. He only knew that among the members of the club, one had served as the international president and one had served as an international director.It wasn't news to the people in the club, but he wanted to tell everyone something new, so he started: "The Kewanee Club of Baltimore is one of 101,898 Kewanee clubs!" Members Feeling a little strange: the speaker made a mistake - because there are only 2,897 Kewanee clubs in the world.He went on to say:

"But even if you don't believe it, it's still a fact, at least mathematically. Your club is one of 101,898, not one of 100,000 or 200,000, but one of 101,898." You must be wondering, how did he calculate it?It turns out that the International Kiwanis Organization has a total of 2,897 clubs.As such, the Baltimore club has had an international president and an international director in the past.From a mathematical point of view, the odds of any Kewanee club wanting to have an international president and director at the same time is 1:101898.He also said: "I have a doctorate in mathematics from Jones and Hopkins, which can prove the accuracy of the numbers I calculated." In this way, he got everyone's conviction and attention, and his speech was naturally successful.

Therefore, when you compliment your audience, be sure to be 100 percent sincere.If you are not sincere enough, you may be able to deceive a few people, but you will never deceive the audience.