Just about everyone wishes he had the "ability" to do a first-class job of speaking in public. But most people don't get their wish.
Most folks are lousy public speakers.
Why?
The reason is simple: most people concentrate on the
small, trivial things of speaking at the expense of the big, important things. In preparing to give a talk, most people give themselves a host of mental instructions, like I've got to remember to stand straight," "Don't move around and don't use your hands," "Don't let the audience see you use your notes," "Remember, don't make mistakes in grammar, especially don't say "for he and
I," say "for him and me,'' "Be sure your tie is straight," "Speak
loud, but not too loud," and so on and on.
Now, what happens when the speaker gets up to speak?,
He's scared because he's given himself a terrific list of things not
to do. He gets confused in his talk and finds himself silently asking, "Have I made, a mistake?"
He is, in brief, a flop. He's a flop because he concentrated on the petty, trivial, relatively unimportant qualities of a good speaker and failed to concentrate on the big things that make a good speaker: knowledge of what he's going to talk about and an intense desire to tell it to other people.
The real test of a speaker is not did he stand straight or did
he make any mistakes in grammar, but rather did the audience
get the points he wanted to put across.
Most of our top speakers
have petty defects; some of them even have unpleasant voices.
Some of the most sought-after speakers in the country would flunk
a speech course taught by the old negative, "don't do this and
don't do that," method.
Yet all these successful public speakers have one thing in common: They have something to say and they feel a bunting desire
for other people to hear it.
Don't let concern with trivia keep you from speaking successfully in public.
I would love to read as many opinions as possible. Also, do well to go through the motivational series on my blog for stunch inspiration.
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