Chapter 79 Try to avoid jargon

If your profession is a highly technical job -- say you're a lawyer, or a physician, or an engineer or something highly specialized -- then when you're speaking to a layperson When writing, we must try our best to avoid using jargon, but use simple and easy-to-understand vocabulary, and give detailed explanations where necessary.You should pay more attention to this point. The reason I call attention here out of a sense of duty is that I have heard hundreds of speeches fail because of the use of arcane terms.Obviously, these speakers don't realize that the general public is ignorant of their expertise.Therefore, although their speeches are full of hype and eloquence, for those listeners who have not received professional knowledge education, they are in a mess.

So how do speakers who make such a mistake do it?The following is the invaluable advice given by former Senator Beaveritz of Indiana in his brilliant pen, which should be read carefully and carefully appreciated by the speaker: In a speech, in order to express clearly, we can use the following good method: We can use the most ordinary people in the audience as the imaginary speech objects.In this way, in order to make your words understandable, you will pay attention to using the most common language and superficial logic.In addition, there is a better method: you can use the children carried by the adults in the audience as the object of your speech.Then, in order for the children to understand what you say, your explanation of the problem must make your language simple and clear.

I very well remember a doctor who gave a speech saying: "Breathing through the diaphragm is very beneficial to the peristalsis of the intestines and to the health of the human body." Instead, move on to other things.So, I had to interrupt him, and then asked everyone: "I wonder if you understand the concept of diaphragmatic breathing and how this breathing method is different from other methods? Besides, why is this breathing method beneficial to the human body?" What about intestinal peristalsis?" The result of the inquiry naturally surprised the doctor, because very few people understood it.So the speaker went back and elaborated further, as follows:

The diaphragm is a thin piece of muscle that sits at the bottom of the lungs and separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity.When we are calm and breathing through the chest, the diaphragm is in an arched state, like an inverted washbasin.When we inhale air with the abdomen, the airflow will compress the diaphragm and make it arch downward until it is nearly flat. At this time, you will feel the stomach muscles pressing against your waist.This downward pressure will massage and stimulate the various organs in your upper abdominal cavity including the stomach, liver, pancreas, spleen, and more.

And when we exhale airflow, the stomach and intestines will press the diaphragm upwards, which is equivalent to another massage activity, which will benefit our metabolism. We know that a large number of unhealthy factors originate in the gut.And if our stomach and intestines are moderately active through the deep breathing method of the diaphragm, symptoms such as indigestion, constipation, and self-poisoning of the human body will naturally disappear.