The Art Of Public Speaking Pdf - Dale Carnegie
The efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect:
its attitude toward its subject is the first source of its power. A book may be
full of good ideas well expressed, but if its writer views his subject from the
wrong angle even his excellent advice may prove to be ineffective.
This book stands or falls by its authors’ attitude toward its subject.
If the
best way to teach oneself or others to speak effectively in public is to fill the
mind with rules, and to set up fixed standards for the interpretation of
thought, the utterance of language, the making of gestures, and all the rest,
then this book will be limited in value to such stray ideas throughout its
pages as may prove helpful to the reader—as an effort to enforce a group of
principles it must be reckoned a failure, because it is then untrue.
It is of some importance, therefore, to those who take up this volume
with open mind that they should see clearly at the out-start what is the
thought that at once underlies and is builded through this structure. In plain
words it is this:
Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals—primarily; it is
not a matter of imitation—fundamentally; it is not a matter of conformity to
standards—at all. Public speaking is public utterance, public issuance, of
the man himself; therefore the first thing both in time and in importance is
that the man should be and think and feel things that are worthy of being
given forth. Unless there be something of value within, no tricks of training
can ever make of the talker anything more than a machine—albeit a highly
perfected machine—for the delivery of other men’s goods. So selfdevelopment is fundamental in our plan.....................................
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