Chapter 76 To keep your speech short and to the point

Before the speech, we should repeatedly modify and temper the beginning and the end of the speech until it is satisfactory, and then make them perfectly combined.Now, people have entered a fast-paced era, so any speech that does not conform to the main theme of this era will arouse the resentment of the audience, at least it is not popular. No one can match Paul of Tarsus's mistakes in this respect.Once, when he gave a speech, everyone felt unbearable.One of them, a young man named Aioticus, got up and went back to his room, but accidentally dropped something from the window, which almost broke Paul's neck. Even so, Paul refused to end his speech.Have we encountered similar situations in our daily life?Here, I will introduce to you a similar case that I personally experienced:

Once, there was a dinner party at a college club in Brooklyn that lasted well into the night.During the meeting, many speakers have made speeches.When the hour hand of the clock pointed to two o'clock in the morning, a doctor stood up and spoke.According to the situation at the time, if he was a witty, sensitive and insightful speaker, he would end his speech with a few words and then let everyone go back to rest early.What are the facts?Unfortunately, the result was exactly the opposite of what everyone expected, and he gave a forty-five-minute tirade against animal dissection experiments.As early as the middle of his speech, the audience couldn't hold back their temper. How much they hoped that someone, like Ayutikus, would accidentally drop something from the window to end the speech earlier.

Mr. Laurimer, who was an editor of the Saturday Evening Post, told me at the time: "When the series of articles in the Post is the most popular and unfinished, I stop running them." I couldn't help wondering: "Why stop publishing? Why choose such a time?" Mr. Laurimer answered my question this way: "People's favorite moments herald the imminent arrival of people's boredom." The same principle applies to public speaking.So, when the audience is still listening to your speech with great interest, you should be ready for the end of the speech. The "Sermon on the High Mountain," the greatest speech ever given by Jesus Christ, was delivered in five minutes; Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" was only ten sentences; Much less than reading a murder story in the morning paper - anyway, be sure to keep your speech short!More concise!

Dr. Johnson of Akdeikon, Niassa, has written a book on the primitive peoples of Africa.In order to compile this book, he lived with those primitive people for forty-nine years and accumulated detailed first-hand materials.In the book, he mentioned: In the village meeting, the speaker must not take up too much time, otherwise, people will use "enough!"It is said that in another tribe the speakers were given only as long as they could stand on one leg.When the speaker stands on his legs, he has to end his speech. As far as ordinary listeners are concerned, although they may be more polite and self-restraint, they will never like long speeches.Therefore, you learn from your failed presentations.Don't turn a blind eye and get dizzy.How to give a speech is inseparable from the merits of positive and negative typical lectures.