Book: Art of Public Speaking- Ch29, 30, 31 Notes +End

Finally, I’ve reached the last page of this book today.  I had been reading it slowly daily so that I can soaked in the message that the author was trying to convey. Please note that this book is not just for public speaking and be advised that your life will change after reading the whole book.  No, I’m just kidding – but in theory, if you will take heed of the wisdom that the author mentioned in every chapter, in some ways, your perspective in life will shift to a better one. 

There are people who do not like to be told. [I am aware that sometimes I tell people…, please forgive me]. If you have been in my inner circle lately, and you had been ignoring the pointers that I shared with you, this is your chance to indirectly listen to me.  Read what I am reading.  Take notes of good points and then meditate on key ideas and find time to execute some of the action items that are worth implementing to your own life.  One time, you asked me why all these bad things are happening to you.  Read p180-Chapter 29-Right Thinking and Personality.

”All that a man is, all his happiness, his sorrow, his achievements, his failures, his magnetism, his weakness, all are in an amazingly large measure the direct results of his thinking. Thought and heart combine to produce right thinking: "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." As he does not think in his heart so he can never become. “

In p189,  Chapter 31-Making Conversation Effective, please read the conversation hints if you don’t have time to read the whole book.  I think it can also be applied to team meetings and blogging.

“ The first step in remedying habits of confusion in manner, awkward bearing, vagueness in thought, and lack
of precision in utterance, is to recognize your faults. If you are serenely unconscious of them, no one–least of
all yourself–can help you. But once diagnose your own weaknesses, and you can overcome them by doing
four things:
1. WILL to overcome them, and keep on willing.
2. Hold yourself in hand by assuring yourself that you know precisely what you ought to say. If you cannot do
that, be quiet until you are clear on this vital point.
3. Having thus assured yourself, cast out the fear of those who listen to you–they are only human and will
respect your words if you really have something to say and say it briefly, simply, and clearly.
4. Have the courage to study the English language until you are master of at least its simpler forms.

Conversational Hints
Choose some subject that will prove of general interest to the whole group. Do not explain the mechanism of a
gas engine at an afternoon tea or the culture of hollyhocks at a stag party. It is not considered good taste for a man to bare his arm in public and show scars or deformities. It is equally bad form for him to flaunt his own woes, or the deformity of some one else’s character.”

The Art of Public Speaking, p180 [public domain]

Next Book Reading-Destined to Reign by Joseph Prince pp307[This book was a Christmas gift , [20121218, VN] from a Christian friend but the receiver declined to read and then forced me to read it and left the book in my reading table.  In obedience, I started Chapter1 last week and I am excited to learn more….