卡耐基演讲·二、注意自己对演讲内容的感受

如果你想告诉听众一个警察因你开车超速而把你拦下来的故事，你可以以一个旁观者的态度来讲述。但是这事发生在你身上，你会有某种感受，这种感受会使你的讲述更明确，表达更有效果。第三人称的方式，是不能给听众留下什么印象的。他们喜欢了解，当那个警察开罚单给你时，你心里是什么感受。所以，你越是清楚地描述当时的情景，或是反映出当初的感受，你便越能生动逼真地表达自己。Suppose you are telling your audience about the policeman who stopped you for going one mile over the speed limit. You can tell us that with all the cool disinterestedness of an onlooker, but it happened to you and you had certain feelings which you expressed in quite definite language. The third-person approach will not make much of an impression on your audience. They want to know exactly how you felt when that policeman wrote out that ticket. So, the more you relive the scene you are describing, or recreate the e-' motions you felt originally, the more vividly you will express yourself.

我们去看话剧、电影的原因之一，就是想要见到、听到感情的表露。我们很害怕自己的感情会当众吐露，因此去看话剧，以满足这种感情流露的需要。One of the reasons why we go to plays and movies is that we want to hear and see emotions expressed. We have become so fearful of giving vent to our feelings in public that we have to go to a play to satisfy this need for emotional expression.

所以，当众说话时，你根据自己倾注在谈话中的热心程度，来表现自己的热诚与兴趣。不要抑制，也不要在自己真实感人的热情上头加个控制闸。让听众看看，你对谈论自己的题目有多热诚，他们的注意力便被你所吸引。When you speak in public, therefore, you will generate excitement and interest in your talk in proportion to the amount of excitement you put into it. Don't repress your honest feelings; don't put a damper on your authentic enthusiasms. Show your listeners how eager you are to talk about your subject, and you will hold their attention.