卡耐基演講·演講時應該注意的態(tài)度

我們與世界發(fā)生接觸的方法有且只有四種。這一點信不信由你。我們以這四種接觸進行評估、歸類：我們做什么，我們看起來是什么樣子，我們說些什么，還有我們怎么說。本章談論的是最后一項：我們怎么說。WOULD YOU BELIEVE it? There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. This chapter will deal with the last of these-how we say it.

我最初教當眾演講課時，花費了很多時間對學生進行發(fā)聲練習，教學生們利用共振，訓練他們增大音量，增加尾音的輕松活潑。但是不久后我發(fā)現(xiàn)，教導成年人怎樣把音調(diào)合乎規(guī)范、怎樣形成銳耳的聲音，完全是無用的東西。這些訓練，對那些能花上三四年的時間來改進聲音表達技巧的人來說，的確是個好方法。然而我知道，我的學生只能使用自己天生的嗓門，如果把用以協(xié)助學生練習“橫膈膜式呼吸”的時間、精力花在更重要的目標上——幫助他們從“死也不敢放手去做”的自我囚禁中解脫出來，我會取得十分快速而持久的驚人效果。感謝上帝，我很明智地這樣去做了！When I first started to teach public speaking classes, I spent a great deal of time on the use of vocal exercises to develop resonance, increase the range of voice, and enhance inflectional agility. It wasn't long, however, before I began to see the utter futility of teaching adults how to project their tones into the upper sinuses and how to form "liquid" vowels. This is all very fine for those who can devote three or four years to improving themselves in the art of vocal delivery. I realized that my students would have to settle for the vocal equipment they were born with. I found that if I expended the time and energy I formerly devoted to helping class members to "breathe diaphragmatically" and worked on the far more important objectives of freeing them from their inhibitions and general reluctance to let themselves go, I would achieve quick and lasting results that were truly amazing. I thank God I had the sense to do this.