卡耐基演讲·2.预先将意念汇集整理

那么，准备讲演的恰当方法是什么呢？现在我来告诉你。你要在生活中留意那些有意义的、曾经给你指引的有关人生内涵的经验，然后把从这些经验中获取的思想、理念、感悟等汇集整理好。真正有用的准备，是你对讲演题目的深思。和查尔斯·雷诺·柏朗博士多年前在耶鲁大学演讲时说的一样：“深思你的题目，酝酿成熟，漫溢思想的馨香……再把所有这些意念写下，简单得只要能表达清楚概念就可以……把它们写在纸片上……通过这样的整理，零散的片断就容易安排和组织起来。”听起来并不难吧？实际上也真的不难，只需要有一点儿专注和思考就行了。What, then, is the proper method of preparing a talk? Simply this: search your background for significant-experiences that have taught you something about life, and assemble your thoughts, your ideas, your convictions, that have welled up from these experiences. True preparation means brooding over your topics. As Dr.Charles Reynold Brown said some years ago in a memorable series of lectures at Yale University, "Brood over your topic until it becomes mellow and expansive ... then put all these ideas down in writing, just a few words, enough to fix the idea ... put them down on scraps of paper-you will find it easier to arrange and organize these loose bits when you come to set your material in order." This doesn't sound like such a difficult program, does it? It isn't. It just requires a little concentration and thinking to a purpose.