Part One: Public Speaking A Quick and Easy Way
By Dale Carnegie This booklet reveals the secrets of effective speaking that it took me over 40 years to discover. I have tried to tell you these secrets simply and clearly and to illustrate them vividly. I urge you to carry this booklet with you and to read it at least three times next week. Read it; study it; underscore the vital parts.
Copyright © 2008 Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.
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PART ONE: PuBLIC SPEAKINg – A QuICK AND EASY WAY
You may be saying to yourself: “Is there really a quick and easy way to learn to speak in public—or is that merely an intriguing title that promises more than it delivers?” No, I am not exaggerating. I am really going to let you in on a vital secret—a secret that will make it easier for you to speak in public immediately. Where did I discover this? In some book? No. In some college course in public speaking? No. I never even heard it mentioned there. I had to discover it the hard way— gradually, slowly, painfully. If, back in my college days, someone had given me this password to effective speaking and writing,
I could have saved myself years and years of wasted, heartbreaking effort. For example, I once wrote a book about Lincoln; and while writing it, I threw into the wastebasket at least a year of wasted effort that might have been saved had I known the great secrets that I am going to divulge to you. The same thing happened when I spent two years trying to write a novel. It happened again while writing a book on public speaking—another year of wasted effort thrown into the wastebasket because I didn’t know the secrets of successful writing and speaking.
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IF POSSIBLE, SPEND YEARS IN PREPARATION
What are these priceless secrets that I have been dangling before your eyes? Just this: talk about something that you have earned the right to talk about through long study or experience. Talk about
something that you