A wonderful book. I am going to reread & annotate it immediately. The challenge is to put the words into action. So many highly powerful skills & tools. Potentially life changing little reference book.

Step by step guide to public speaking— but with a lot of anecdotes. This is what’s wonderful about reading through the experiences of person who has lived teaching people how to make it work.
Look at your listeners as if they owe you money, best advice I have come across on public speaking...

It's a really interesting book.

This book has some useful information but that is surely not enough to make it good as a whole. First of all it was not what I thought it would be. I hoped it will be more focused on communication with everyday people if that makes sense. Now that I have read it, I can say that this book is focused only on business world (communicating on your every day job and stuff like that). You can feel that this book is very old by some of the things the author is talking about. Half of it is talking about speaking on meetings and stuff, giving lectures etc. It is just not what I thought it would be. And what author in the world is putting quotes in his book from which each and every one of them is by the author himself. Doesn't really make any sense to me. On top of that quoting of himself, he writes about himself in third person... I gave two stars only because of a few good information I found.

A great little book for anyone looking to improve upon their speaking skills. Dale Carnegie is one of, if not the, greatest self-help authors of all time. He's written countless books on how to improve your business and personal skills, and this book does not disappoint. Like all of his books, it is a little old and dated, but practical and useful nonetheless. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their communication skills.

Recomand pentru dezvoltarea comunicării profesionale și în relațiile personale.

the cliff notes:
have passion and enthusiasm for your topic
be knowledgeable
practice at every opportunity

a LOT of testimonials

1. Fundamentals of Effective Speaking
- Public speaking is not a natural born talent
- Make up your mind and persist
- It takes effort to prepare well. Assemble and arrange ideas before hand
- Speak naturally and do not memorise. Rehearse with friends whenever there’s opportunities
- Act confident until you feel it
- Talk about something you have earned the right I talk about. Link back to your life, experience or backgrounds
- Best talks come from the heart. Be sure you are excited and eager to share

2. Speech, speaker and audience
- Limit your subject, don’t feel compelled to cover everything. Be clear on what is the key message and stay on course
- Once limiting the course, research sufficiently to develop reserve power. This helps improve confidence in delivery and anticipation of follow-up questions. With deep understanding of the topic, improves capability to speak naturally
- Fill your talk with illustrations and examples. Humanize your talk by relating to audience, don’t preach. Use names when possible. Fill talk with relevant details. Dramatist using dialog or demonstration.
- Stay away from jargons. Use concrete familiar words to create mental pictures
- Relive your feelings as you recount your personal experiences
- Understand what’s important to your audience and relate to them where possible
- Give your audience honest, sincere appreciation
- Include audience in the talk if possible, make it interactive
- Play yourself down, don’t blow your own trumpet

3. The Purpose of Prepared and Impromptu Talks
- Four purpose of talks i) to persuade or get action ii) to inform iii) to impress or convince iv) to entertain
- To get action, relate with relevant personal examples or experience. This will draw attention to your talk - people love stories. State your point as specific and simple as possible with force and conviction. If too complicated, message gets lost and no action will be taken. Wrap up with reason or benefit the audience can expect from the action
- For talk to inform, restrict your subject to what is relevant. Prepare by arranging your ideas in sequence that’s easy to understand. For talks with many points, enumerate the points as you transition from one to the next. Avoid jargons, use simple analogies for complex concepts or visual aids
- For talk to convince, confidence is key. Prepare well and build confidence beforehand. During delivery, speak with contagious enthusiasm. Show respect and affection to your audience
- Practice impromptu speaking. Mentally ready to speak impromptu. Get into relevant example immediately as it will be what you can talk about naturally without worrying about the next point. Be present and pay attention as you’ll never know when the spotlight is on you to make that impromptu talk. Keep your ideas logically grouped rather than rambling on incoherently

4. The Art of Communicating
- Don’t take yourself too seriously. Break out of your self consciousness
- Be yourself, don’t try to be someone you’re not. That’s when you can talk naturally and audience know it
- Have a natural conversation and talk from your heart
- Keep in mind your vocal delivery, body language, gestures

5. The Challenge of Effective Speaking
- When introducing speakers, use TIS formula. Topic, Importance of the topic and Speaker. Spotlight is on the speaker so be generous and sincere to the speaker and try not to make it your talk
- Organising linger talk. To get attention, start with story - personal experience or one that arouse suspense. Alternatively use shocking facts, ask for show of hands, promise the audience they get something they want or use exhibit. Do not open with analogy or trying too hard to be funny. Streamline your main ideas and support them using statistics, testimony of experts, analogies or demonstrations. Summarize your points at the end and appeal for action - simple and specific.
- Effective speaking does not come overnight. Practice even in daily conversations. Use vivid examples with When, Who, What, Why, How to improve your story telling capability. Seek out opportunities to speak in public. Most notable historical figures, the likes of Lincoln, did not get is Gettysburg address overnight. It was through years of deliberate work and practice

#Book_review: #The_quick_and_easy_way_to_effectives_speaking
By #dale_Carnegie
The prime motive of this book is to furnish excellence in speaking effective and creative with motivation of self-learning and endeavor, this book explains art of oratory in 14 topics and four chapter, each one of chapter posses special and keen place in the enhancement of public speaking. This book is complete bibliography of writer’s journey who taught public speaking at seminars for 40 years. In this book writer transcript’s, his experience while teaching and roaming around the globe, that how people suffers with anxiety and depression due to lack of confidence? and how they overcome their shortcomings with self-motivation? The delightful explanation of speaking in black and white puts an extraordinary effort of writer to ease reader attention on the topic of speaking. In this book writer explains different norms of society for speaking effective and efficient with historical and natural examples of our daily routine. Among all those common examples there is one which I like most is the answer of Lincoln to his critics during a crucial period of civil war. With commendable analogy and metaphor of nature, writer truly stretch some stupendous attention of readers for boosting spirit of learn more and more about the given topic of speech. In this book writer is emphasizing to his reader for practicing speech on practical ground and motivating them with mantra like “for better or worse, you must play your own instrument in the orchestra of life” and “fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind”. When I peep deep inside the book, I found writer break the stereotypical instruction of cramming and conduct of speaking with an idea of prompt, precise speech with confident and definite goals.
Overall this book is complete pack of strength for learning public speaking as novice, while this book will not put some extra glory over experts but despite the nature of this book there is enough code of conduct for speech who can easily please any speaker weather novice or expert.
#Fundamentals_of_public_speaking:
#chapter_1: “#_Basic_principles _of_effective_speaking”
In this chapter writer give different examples of clumsy and skilled people that how they become expert in public speaking and how they surfer’s a lot from societal pressure at their highest ridge of carrier, and after giving their examples writer suggested for seeking experience from their hardships and learn the technicality of oratory. Further writer tries to blink a light of self confidence with primary statement of “keep your goal before you and predetermine your mind to success” because if you are not ready to speech then speech is not ready for delivery and if you think passive before hitting ground then you will surely lose your sprit to face the music of crowd.
#chapter_2: “Techniques of effective speaking”
In this chapter writer put lime light on major issue of stage fright and express his opinion for novice and make them realize that you are not unique who suffers with anxiety but it happens with every second person around us, because it is nature of humankind to prepare itself for different bright and dark sides of life. Further he adds more that these symptoms of clumsiness are quite usual for beginners so let them go with flow and behave confidently and bravely with high moral of dignity. While moving ahead he prohibited beginners for cramming and suggested them for make small clinches of any long topic on different chunks of paper for better deliverances and gaining optimal attention of listeners. He suggested to precise long speeches sentences In one-word substitution and give instruction for assembling and arrangement of ideas before giving any speech.
#chapter_3: “#The_three_aspects_of_every_speech”
In this chapter writer explains that you should speak about something that is familiar to you, he said if you speak upon bird in your hand then you have strong command on it, further he said you should give natural and livelihood examples that may resembles with your personality and taken from your past experience. If you speak about what life taught you then you can easily bring yourself into the speech thus this will be your solid victory to keep your audience attention on your speech. He suggested further that you should be excited about your topic and put yourself in the topic let your excitement be seen by your audience, further interact with your audience and try to involve them by asking questing ad doing attentive activities.
#chapter_4:”#The_two_methods_of_delivering_a_talk”
In this chapter writer give some to-do and not to-do instruction like while communicating with audience you should merge with them by interactive tricks and try to figure out what they want to listen because if your topic is not really mean to them they will not take interest to you so be specific on your topic and bound your knowledge within boundaries of their native place, try to appreciate them if you can and show humbleness in your tone while speaking to them, support your main idea of delivery appeal your action and just dig deep into yourself with eye to eye interaction if you do all these things then stage is yours.
#Conclusion:
I really like to read this book because of its nature of picturizing real-time scenario, further I was truly inspired by high morals of manuscript that how beautifully carnage depicts act of action in words, I really recommend this book who really suffers with stage fright and who want to enhance their speaking skills
Thankyou

I was eager to read this book and learn everything it offers.

I'm a system analyst and part of my work is to deliver work efficiently and that includes
communicating with people clearly and giving out my thoughts concisely. I'm also a friend and a workmate who's bad at reaching out because I am often misunderstood. It is frustrating to be misunderstood and it is more frustrating to say what you want to say multiple times in different way just so people could get me.

Before, I always received feedback after I finished presenting, feedbacks usually composed of they don't understand what I said, I talked too fast. To the point that I had trauma of presenting or speaking in the meeting. But as part of the job, I get to throw myself out there and do it.

While reading the advices and lesson points of this book, I am happy to notice that I've been applying some of the practices already even before reading this book, ex. preparing for the speeches, act confident as if you're indeed confident, practice practice and practice your speech, do not memorize your speech, and so on. (read the book for more practices on how to be effective speaker).

After finishing this book, I want more, I want more on how to improve myself. Like I said I've been applying some practices even before I encountered this book. It is just a good confirmation of what I did is right and actually worked. From time to time, I would open this book because because to be effective speaker takes a lot of time and practice.

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