Keep up your good work and invite critism

Invite Criticism

Debating Societies and the Toastmasters’ members are evaluators of other members. They observe poor speaking habits and distracting mannerisms and point them out. These evaluations by fellow members go far in removing any awkward, self-conscious ill-at-ease manner that might embarrass both you and your audience when you get up to talk. If you can’t prevail upon one of these evaluators to hear you speak your piece, pick a member of your family or a close friend to hear you out and criticize your efforts.

Keep Up Your Good Work

In all probability your first attempt at public speaking only answered the question “Who are you?” You knew the answer to that one better than anybody else, and that knowledge gave you sufficient confidence to get through without breaking down!
This proves that knowledge begets confidence. That confidence in turn gets across to the audience a feeling that you know whereof you speak, and gains their respect. It is important for your speech to reflect a personal conviction in order to make your remarks convincing.

Your Second Attempt

For your second appearance let’s add to your first speech the idea that yours is an interesting business; you can be convincing because you are enthusiastic about your work. Your new speech now assumes a definite purpose. You seek to convince an audience that your work is interesting, and your personal enthusiasm becomes contagious because you know that you know more about your business than anyone else present. This knowledge kindles your confidence and you become convincing.

You will find that people are not sold just because you like your work; to this they add a “So what?” They aren’t concerned with your conclusion; they want the reason for thinking as you do. Nothing disgusts an audience more obviously than a big shot who puts too many “IV in his talk, or one who substitutes sound for sense. A Hoosier hotshot governor once was caught in a small village on a Sunday. A departed legionnaire was to be buried that day. Members of the local post asked the Governor to attend the services and to say a few words. Although the ghost writer for this head of state was absent, he felt that he couldn’t refuse the Legion.

At the services the Governor rose and announced the name of the departed as David Davis, then slowly (but pompously) he added, “Like David of old”; then came another long awkward pause while he sought to connect the two Davids. Finally and stumblingly, he concluded, “They were both farmer boys.”

It was a very poor sample of the oratorical talent that Wabash water sprouts.

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