Chapter 69 First aid method for sudden forgetting words

The best way to salvage this flustered situation is to start a new paragraph or sentence with the last word of the last paragraph of your speech, or the last sentence or subject. Suppose a speaker, in spite of all his preparations and precautions, finds in the middle of his speech to a group of parishioners that his mind goes blank--he himself freezes up suddenly and stares blankly at him. audience, not knowing how to proceed—a dire situation.His pride would not allow him to sit down in confusion.He figured he could come up with something else, if only he'd been given ten or fifteen seconds.But even 15 seconds of flustered silence in front of an audience is serious business.What should we do in this situation?When a famous U.S. senator encountered this situation, he immediately asked his audience if he was speaking loudly enough, and whether the audience in the last few rows could hear him.He had known for a long time that his voice could be heard by the audience in the back row. His move was not really asking for any opinions, but buying time.In that short pause, he can immediately remember what he wants to say, and then continue.

But the best way to salvage this flustered situation is to start a new paragraph or sentence with the last word of the last paragraph of your speech, or the last sentence or subject.This will form a chain that will never end, like a brook in the English poet laureate Tennyson flowing forever.Let's look at an example of using it.Let's say a speaker is talking about "career achievement" and finds his mind suddenly goes blank after he finishes the following passage. He said: "The reason why the average employee can't get promoted is mainly because he has no real interest in his work and shows no enterprising spirit."

Then we start the next sentence with "enterprising spirit".You may not know what you're going to say, or how you're going to end the sentence, but, anyway, start.Even a poor performance is much better than admitting failure.Let's try. "'Progressiveness' is initiative, doing something yourself instead of waiting for someone else to tell you." That's not a very smart way of saying it, and it won't go down in the history of public speaking.But isn't it much better than painful silence?Next, what are the last few words of this sentence? ——"Waiting for others' orders."Well, let's use this concept again to make a new sentence. "Continuously ordering, instructing, and driving company personnel who refuse to engage in any kind of initiative is the most infuriating and unimaginable thing." No, another paragraph is complete.Let's go on, this time we have to talk about imagination. "Imagination—that's all we need. Solomon says, 'Where there is no fantasy, there is no human being.'" We're well past two paragraphs.Now we can pick ourselves up and go on: "It's sad to see the number of company employees who are eliminated from business competition every year. I say sad because it only takes a little bit more loyalty, a little bit more drive, a little bit more enthusiasm." , these eliminated men and women can lift themselves from failure to success. However, losers will never admit that this is why they failed."

If it goes on... But while the speaker is uttering these sham phrases, he should be trying to think of his next point, what he was going to say. This endless chain of thinking, if continued, can drag on for a very long time, and may lead the speaker to discuss the price of plum pudding and canary with the audience.Still, it is the best first aid for a temporarily out-of-control mind caused by forgetting, and it has actually saved many speeches.