Chapter 110 The Secret of Great Speech

There has been an abundance of clichés about speech, and, often under the guise of various theories, they appear in perfect form and mystify speech.The obnoxious conventions of speech often make speech ridiculous.Furthermore, many of the books on public speaking that we see in libraries and bookstores are not very useful. Although things have changed in many respects, students in many schools still memorize the magnificent oratory of those orators a hundred years ago-although these speech methods have deviated from the style and spirit of the present, just as We're going back to wearing the same hats they both used to wear.

A whole new school of oratory had sprung up after the Civil War, and, like the telegraph, they represented the fashion of the age.The rhetorical methods once hailed as fashionable in this year's prayer will no longer go unnoticed by the public. Whether it's a small business meeting with a few people or a large lecture venue with thousands of people, any contemporary audience expects a speaker to deliver in a conversational way as well as in a private conversation. Even so, a speaker should never speak in the voice of a private conversation, otherwise the audience will have difficulty hearing what he is saying.Because the strength required to speak to 40 people is absolutely different from that required to speak to one person.Just like the statue on the top of the building, in order to let the audience downstairs get a sense of normal size, it must be carved into a larger size.

After Mark Twain gave a speech on a mining site in Nevada, a worker came up to him and asked, "Is this the normal tone of your speech?" The meaning of this sentence is: Please use your normal tone.That is asking you to raise your voice. Having achieved the above requirements, what else is needed for a successful speech?A few days after the lecture given by the novelist we have just described, another Mr. Oliver Lawz gave a lecture on "The Atom and the World" at the same place.He has thought and studied the subject of this lecture for more than half a century, and has gained a wealth of experience through extensive investigation.Therefore, these contents have been integrated into his life and transformed into a part of his body and mind.

During the course of the speech, his accumulated knowledge and his involuntary expression of passion have made him completely forget that he is giving a speech.He really forgot that it was a lecture - he just lost himself in the world of "atoms", telling us all he knew with his eyes and heart, and it all seemed so to us clarity, accuracy and sensitivity. There is no doubt that his speech was a great success, and its charm and shocking power deeply moved every audience present.Naturally, we should be convinced that he was an excellent speaker, but I also believe that he himself did not realize this, and the audience of that speech definitely did not regard him as a public speaker.

Reading this, you should understand a truth: When you speak, if the public clearly realizes that you are a trained speaker, then you have lived up to my expectations; you should bathe your audience in a kind of In the pure wind of nature.Just as a good glass window simply lets light through, a good speaker keeps his listeners absorbed in the content of his speech, not in the form of it.