卡耐基演講·培養(yǎng)演講的自信心

在紐約市，我的一個(gè)訓(xùn)練班的畢業(yè)典禮上，一個(gè)畢業(yè)生面對(duì)大約兩百個(gè)人坦誠(chéng)相告：“卡耐基先生，五年前，我來(lái)到你舉辦示范講演的飯店門口，卻沒(méi)有進(jìn)去。我害怕要是進(jìn)去上課了，就遲早要當(dāng)眾講演。我的手僵握在門柄上，不敢進(jìn)去；最后，只有轉(zhuǎn)身走開了。當(dāng)時(shí)，要是知道你能讓我輕易地克服恐懼——那種讓我一面對(duì)聽(tīng)眾就癱軟的恐懼，我就不會(huì)浪費(fèi)這五年的時(shí)間了?！盕IVE YEARS AGO, Mr.Carnegie, I came to the hot el where you were conducting one of your demonstrations. I walked up to the door of the meeting room and then stopped. I knew if I entered that room and joined a class, sooner or later I'd have to make a speech. My hand froze on the doorknob. I couldn't go in. I turned my back and walked out of the hotel.If I had only known then how you make it easy to conquer fear, the paralyzing fear of an audience, I wouldn't have lost these past five years."

他說(shuō)話的時(shí)候，特別輕松和自信。我想，這個(gè)人一定能憑借他學(xué)到的語(yǔ)言表達(dá)能力和信心，提高處理行政事務(wù)的能力。作為他的老師，很高興他能勇敢地面對(duì)恐懼并且戰(zhàn)勝它。想一想，如果在五年或十年前就戰(zhàn)勝恐懼，現(xiàn)在他肯定有更多的成功，更多的快樂(lè)。The man who spoke these revealing words wasn't talking across a table or a desk. He was directing his remarks to an audience of some two hundred people. It was the graduation session of one of my Courses in New York City. As he gave his talk, I was particularly impressed by his poise and self-assurance. Here was a man, I thought, whose executive skills will be tremendously increased by his newly acquired expressiveness and confidence. As his instructor, I Was delighted to see that he had dealt a death blow to fear, and I couldn't help thinking how much more successful, and what is more, how much happier this man would have been if his victory over fear had come five or ten years before.

愛(ài)默生說(shuō)：“恐懼比世上任何事物更能擊潰人類。”多么讓人無(wú)奈的真實(shí)啊。感謝上天，讓我有能力把人們從恐懼中挽救出來(lái)。1912年我剛開始授課時(shí)，一點(diǎn)兒不知道這項(xiàng)訓(xùn)練能成功地幫助人們消除恐懼與自卑感。我發(fā)現(xiàn)，學(xué)習(xí)當(dāng)眾說(shuō)話是一種天然的方法，可以幫助人們克服局促的心理，建立勇氣和自信。是什么原因呢？因?yàn)楫?dāng)眾說(shuō)話，讓我們控制住了自己的恐懼。Emerson said, "Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world." Oh, how I have been made aware of the bitter truth of that statement. And how grateful I am that during my life I have been able to rescue people from fear. When I started to teach my course in 1912, little did I realize that this training would prove to be one of the best methods ever yet devised to help people eliminate their fears and feelings of inferiority. I found that learning to speak in public is nature's own method of overcoming self-consciousness and building up courage and self-confidence. Why? Because speaking in public makes us come to grips with our fears.

多年來(lái)一直訓(xùn)練人們當(dāng)眾說(shuō)話，我獲得一些想法，它們可以幫助你很快克服上臺(tái)的恐懼，短短的數(shù)周練習(xí)后你就會(huì)有信心了。In years of training men and women to speak in public, I have picked up some ideas to help you quickly overcome stage fright and develop confidence in a few short weeks of practice.