卡耐基演讲·三、多寻找一些当众说话的机会

在日常交流中使用本书中的一些技巧，常常能使你获得意想不到的收获。因此，应该努力地寻找每一个当众说话的机会。如何才能做到这一点呢？简单的方法就是参加一个有更多当众说话机会的俱乐部，做一个活跃的会员，施展浑身解数，协助处理俱乐部的工作——大多数这样的工作都是要到处求人的。另一种更能突现自己的途径就是设法成为一名兼职的节目主持人，它可以使你有机会访问许多优秀的人物，担任向他人介绍的任务。In addition to using the principles of this book in everyday speech, where incidentally you will reap the greatest rewards, you should seek every opportunity to speak in public. How do you do this? By joining a club where public speaking of some sort goes on. Don't just be an inactive member, a mere looker-on. Pitch in and help by doing committee work. Most of these jobs go begging. Get to be program chairman. That will give you an opportunity to interview good speakers in your community, and you certainly will be called upon to make speeches of introduction.

应该充分利用本书的种种建议，在开始演讲前做二十至三十分钟左右的练习，并且尽量能让俱乐部里的人知道你在准备一个面对他们的讲演。发表演讲的机会很多。你可以自告奋勇地到自己所在的城镇的演讲会去发表演讲；许多筹募基金的组织通常会寻找志愿者帮助它们做宣传。为了赢得更好的效果，他们甚至会告诉你许多讲演秘诀，这将对你大有裨益。许多著名的演讲家就是这样起家的，他们在一些偶然的机会里异军突起，成就非凡。以山姆·列文森为例，作为广播、电视明星，和众人仰慕的演讲家，在纽约任中学教员期间，就十分喜欢就自己最了解的人和事，如家庭、亲友、学生，以及工作生活中种种不寻常的事情，发表简短的演讲。没有预料到这些谈话引起了听众热烈的反应，不久，他就被邀请去发表公众演讲，成为许多广播节目的特约嘉宾，最后完全放弃了教师工作而步入娱乐圈。As soon as possible, develop a twenty to thirty minute talk. Use the suggestions in this book as a guide. Let your club or organization know that you are prepared to address them. Offer your services to a speaker's bureau in your town. Fund-raising campaigns are looking for volunteers to speak for them. They provide you with a speaker's kit which will be of great help in preparing your talk. Many speakers of consequence have begun in this way. Some of them have risen to great prominence. Take Sam Levenson, for example, the radio and TV star and a speaker whose services are sought all over the country. He was a high school teacher in New York. Just as a sideline he began making short talks about what he knew best, his family, relatives, his students, and the unusual aspects of his job. These talks took fire, and he was soon asked to address so many groups it began to interfere with his teaching chores. But, by this time he was a guest on network programs and it wasn't long before Sam Levenson transferred his talents entirely to the entertainment world.