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Highlander Folk School — Part 12
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Everyone is a "Public Speaker."
Public Speaking is just a big name for getting up on your feet and telling
people what you think. Most of us feel at home when we sit around a table
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get nervous or scared. Everyone feels the same when he gives a speech, even
the high-powered orators who seem so sure of themselves. Just ask one of them
and see what he says.
There are 4 good ways to get rid of that "scared" feeling:
1. Know what you want to gay.
2. Ee sincere.
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to are your friends - good union people -
so just relax.
4. Practice,
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The best way to learn to speak well is to speak often. There's no substitute
for prectice. But there are a few principles and shouts be kept in mind be-
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cause they'll help you tw improve your speech and v Your pPoiny across,
1. Leok at everyons.
Unless you Icok et everyone, some people are going to lose interest -
they'll feel that you're not talking to them. You've seen speakers who
fasten their eyes cn poor Joe in the front row. This just makes Joe
uneconforte>le, evd mekes the rest of the people feel that they've bean
forgotten and shouldn't really be there, that the speaker is having a
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And then there are speakers who will talk to the ceiling or the floor,
or to the trees and buildings outside, or to one section of the
audience. You've seen speakers like that. And do you remember what
vour reaction wes? You started thinking of something else and didn't
hear what tho sp2eker was saying. Or, if the speaker became interested
in some noise, or passing car, you did too - and forgot what he was
saying.
The sane thing will happen to your audience unless you look at all of
them and mike thom feel that you have something important to say to
each and every one of then,
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