Name: The Art of Public Speaking
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Price: 34.02 EUR
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Author: Carnegie, Dale
ISBN: 9788183631556

Type

Physical Book

Author

Dale Carnegie

Publisher

Adarsh Books

Language

English

Pages

210

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19x12x1.2 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9788183631556

Synopsis "The Art of Public Speaking"

The efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect: its attitude toward its subject is the first source of its power. A book may be full of good ideas well expressed, but if its writer views his subject from the wrong angle even his excellent advice may prove to be ineffective. This book stands or falls by its authors' attitude toward its subject. If the best way to teach oneself or others to speak effectively in public is to fill the mind with rules, and to set up fixed standards for the interpretation of thought, the utterance of language, the making of gestures, and all the rest, then this book will be limited in value to such stray ideas throughout its pages as may prove helpful to the reader-as an effort to enforce a group of principles it must be reckoned a failure, because it is then untrue. It is of some importance, therefore, to those who take up this volume with open mind that they should see clearly at the out-start what is the thought that at once underlies and is builded through this structure. In plain words it is this: Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals-primarily; it is not a matter of imitation-fundamentally; it is not a matter of conformity to standards-at all. Public speaking is public utterance, public issuance, of the man himself; therefore the first thing both in time and in importance is that the man should be and think and feel things that are worthy of being given forth. Unless there be something of value within, no tricks of training can ever make of the talker anything more than a machine-albeit a highly perfected machine-for the delivery of other men's goods. So self-development is fundamental in our plan.

Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie (pseudonym of Dale Breckenridge Carnegie, November 24, 1888 - November 1, 1955) was an American businessman and writer of books on human relations and effective communication

Carnegie was a promoter of what is now known as taking responsibility, although this only appears occasionally in his writings. One of the central ideas of his books is that it is possible to change the behavior of others if we change our attitude towards them.

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