How to Develop Self-Confidence And Influence People By Public Speaking

1. when a speaker has a real message in his head and heart--an inner urge to speak, he is almost sure to do himself credit. a well-prepared speech is already nineteenths delivered. 2. what is preparation? the settting down of some mechanical sentences on paper? the memorizing of phrases? Not at all. real reprepartion consists in digging sth out of yourself, in assembling and arranging your own thoughts, in cherishing and nurturing your own convictions. 3. do not sit down and try to manufacture a speech in thirty minutes. a speech can't be cooked to order like a steak. a speech must grow. select your topic early in the week, think over it during odd moments, brood over it, sleep over it, dream over it. discuss it with friends. make it a topic of conversation. ask yourself all possible questions concerning it. pull down on pieces of paper all thoughts and illustrations that come to you and keep reaching out for more. ideas, suggestions, illustrations will come drifting to you at sundry times--when you are bathing, when you are driving downtown, when you are waiting for dinner to be served. that was Lincolin's method. it has been the method of almost all successful speakers. 5. collect far more material than you intend to use. know more than you can use, to have a ful reservoir of information.

dictate [intransitive and transitive] to say words for someone else to write down dictate a letter/memo etc to somebody She's dictating a letter to her secretary right now. theodore roosevelt prepared his talks in the characteristic rooseveltian manner: he dug up all the facts, reviewed them ,appraised them, determined the findings, arrived at his conclusions, arrived with the feeling of certianty that was unshakable. then, with a pad of notes before him, he started dictating and he dicated his speech very rapidly so that it would have rush and spontanity and the spirit of life. then he went over this typewritten copy, revised it, inserted, deleted, filled it with pencil marks, and then dicated it all over again. "i never won anything," said he, "without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment and careful planning and working along in advance." ... this practice of actually writing out what you are going to say, will force you to think. it will clarify your ideas. it will hook them in your memory. it will reduce your mental wandering to a minimum. it will improve your diction.

summary: A. Start with a strong and persistent desire B.Prepare C.Act confident D.Practice