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Name: The Art of Public Speaking
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Author: Dale Carnegie, with J.B. Esenwein

Dale Carnegie, with J.B. Esenwein

Become a confident, effective public speaker

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What’s in it for me? Master the art of public speaking.

Spiders, heights, public speaking. We’ve all got our phobias. But even if you’d rather walk across a spider-infested tightrope strung between two skyscrapers than give a speech before an expectant audience, public speaking needn’t be such a terrifying thing.

As these blinks explain, the ability to speak in public is a matter of practice. It’ll be uncomfortable at first, but there’s only one way to overcome that discomfort – you’ve got to plunge right in.

Once you’ve done that, the rest is a relative breeze. Indeed, mastering the oratory art is a fun and fantastic endeavor. Sure, there’s a great deal of practice involved, but, in the end, successful speaking hinges on sincere feeling and a belief in the subject you’re presenting. These blinks will give you a range of practical tips – from how to overcome stage fright to how to arrange an audience – with which to undergird your personal sincerity and belief.

Along the way, you’ll also learn

how arranging an audience is like building a campfire;
why you can’t nail one tree’s branches to another tree’s trunk; and
what basketball players have in common with public speakers.

Becoming a skilled speech-giver is a matter of practice, and stage fright can be conquered.

Do you remember how you learned to swim? Did you go to the library, study a manual on the art of swimming and then, brimming with hard-won knowledge, confidently don your swimming gear and plunge fearlessly into the nearest body of water?

Probably not. Whether you remember it or not, you learned to swim by, well, swimming – and there was likely a lot of awkward thrashing about and water up the nose before you felt at home in a pool.

Why dwell on your introduction to the aquatic realm? Well, mastering the art of public speaking is much like learning to swim. Giving speeches is the only way to become a skilled orator. And that means jumping into the proverbial deep end.

At first, you’ll probably be filled with apprehension when standing before an audience. But don’t fret. Many great speakers, from the British statesman William Gladstone to the American clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, never ceased to suffer from stage fright.

But speech-giving isn’t a matter of becoming fearless; it’s a matter of mastering your fear. Here are three ways to do that.

The first is to banish feelings of self-consciousness by letting yourself be absorbed by the subject of your speech. If you’re utterly focused on the idea or message that you’re trying to communicate, there’ll be little room for idle worries about your appearance or how the audience perceives you. Subordinate yourself to the content of your speech, and all undue concerns about self-presentation will vanish.

It’s equally important to have something to say. Many speakers fail because they approach the podium unprepared. If you haven’t prepared your material and practiced your speech, doubts and misgivings are sure to assail you the minute you open your mouth. To avoid this, the author advises memorizing at least the first few sentences of your speech.

Then, after preparing for success, expect it. Expecting success doesn’t mean you should be overconfident and complacent. Rather, maintain your humility – not a cowering, servile humility, but a sort of vibrant humbleness, an eternal openness to improvement. Cast aside your self-involved fears, and be willing to succeed.

Your first few speeches may feel like a sort of drowning – but keep practicing, and they’ll soon be going swimmingly.

Use emphasis to vanquish monotony.

Imagine you’re a pianist. Whether you’re playing your own songs or the compositions of someone else, there are countless ways to interpret the music. You could play slowly or quickly, softly or loudly; with wild flourishes or with rigid uniformity. There are, in short, no hard-and-fast rules for how music should be played.

The same can be said of public speaking. There is no end to the number of ways to give a speech successfully, but first, you’ll need to master the speech-giving basics.

An ability to arouse emotion in your listeners is the fulcrum of public speaking.

Imagine two speakers, each delivering anti-slavery speeches in pre-Emancipation Proclamation America. The first is a white politician, a man with a solid record of anti-slavery activism. The second is a black mother on the auction block, a woman who’s just watched her son get sold down the river.

Whose speech do you think would be more stirring?

Gestures can be learned, but they must spring from real feeling.

What are you going to do about that tree? You know, the gnarled apple tree in your backyard with the stunted, leafless branches? Here’s a possible solution. You could dash to the garage, grab your chainsaw, saw off the branches of your neighbor’s towering oak tree, haul them to your yard and nail them gloriously to your tree’s trunk!

Ah, if only horticultural difficulties were so easily overcome.

A good voice requires good health.

What do you think basketball players have in common with public speakers? Sure, both ought to be comfortable in front of crowds – but there’s something else. They’ve both got to be in good cardiovascular condition!

Whether you’re running in for a slam dunk or trying to make yourself heard in a large auditorium, a strong pair of lungs can only help.

Arrange your audience to increase the influence of your speech.

Ah, fresh air! Chirping crickets! The star-strewn night sky! You’re camping, and all you need now is to start a fire and get some hot dogs roasting. You collect some nice dry sticks, cast them about at random, light a match and apply it to the nearest bit of kindling.

If you have any camping know-how at all, you’ll have already noticed a critical flaw in this fire-making choreography. Your stick arrangement is all wrong. If you want to achieve a hearty blaze, you’ll need to place your sticks in a pile so the flame can pass from one to the next.

Strengthen your power of argumentation by testing your arguments.

There was once a king who wanted to rule the world. And he had a marvelous skill: he could build impregnable castles. But this king also had a fatal failing: he was incapable of toppling his enemies’ fortifications.

Building an irrefutable argument will get you nowhere if you’re unable to refute the arguments that might be used against you. Indeed, if you can’t poke holes in the counterarguments of potential disputants, their assertions will be, as far as you’re concerned, as unassailable as yours.

Use the imagination to your public-speaking advantage.

Argument is the foundation on which all convincing speeches are built. But if a speech is merely a well-wrought chain of logical links, it will lack luster and life. It will be sturdy, no doubt – but who will want to listen to it?

That’s why you should harness the power of the imagination before you approach the public-speaking platform.

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The Art of Public Speaking (1915) remains one of the most popular and widely-read guides to making effective public speeches. Its approachable language and applicable tips have been turning would-be speech-givers into master orators for more than a century.

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If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you. You will.

—Dale Carnegie, with J.B. Esenwein

Wer The Art of Public Speaking lesen sollte

Aspiring public speakers
People who’ve experienced stage fright
Anyone trying to increase their influence

Über den Autor

An American writer and lecturer, Dale Carnegie was a master of public speaking. He dedicated his career to improving the lives and abilities of his many readers and listeners. His other books include How to Win Friends and Influence People and How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job.

J.B. Esenwein was an American academic and writer. He served as editor for multiple US publications and taught English at Pennsylvania Military College.

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