Now when people mention Lincoln, they only remember that he left a well-known Gettysburg address, but few people remember that he stuttered and his speech was worse than the average person. Continuous efforts can give Lincoln excellent eloquence. Similarly, charm also depends on the efforts made the day after tomorrow. It is neither abstract nor natural. This is a training method used by American President Lincoln. The main content of this method is to gain eloquence by reading aloud.
Its practice is:
1. Read aloud.
Lincoln regarded the works of scholars, poets and other outstanding figures as good friends, and communicated with the author silently through whispering and reading slowly. He often chooses the best works, reads them carefully in a low voice, and carefully understands its meaning, momentum, rhythm and even charm. He has prepared two Byron poems, one in the office and the other at home. After reading them for a long time, he turned them into pages. Really? What have you learned from yourself after reading Byron's two books? .
read aloud
After reading in a low voice, Lincoln deepened his understanding of this work and became quite familiar with it. Then, he reads aloud and recites. He often reads aloud the long poems of Byron and Bai Langning. After entering the White House, I often read and recite the long dialogues in Shakespeare's famous plays King Lear and Hamlet. When watching a play, he can even casually comment on whether the actor's words are correct and at the same time give his own explanation. Read aloud with emotion, you will have a deeper understanding of these excellent works, and your memory will be extremely strong. You can easily use excellent sentences in your speech or conversation.
Lincoln's extraordinary eloquence story
1860, Lincoln ran for president of the United States. As we all know, Lincoln was born in poverty, but his opponent Douglas was a millionaire. In order to overwhelm Lincoln, Douglas rented the most luxurious campaign train at that time to give speeches all over the country, with music and firecrackers playing at every stop. The scene is quite spectacular. Douglas proudly declared: I want Lincoln, a hillbilly, to smell my nobility. ? On the contrary, Lincoln didn't have a car. He bought a ticket to go by bus. At every stop, his friends prepared a carriage for him to plow the fields. But Lincoln was not ashamed at all. In his campaign speech, he said: someone wrote to ask me how much property I have. I have a wife and three sons, all priceless. In addition, we rented an office with a desk, three chairs and a big bookshelf in the corner. The books on the shelf are worth reading by everyone. I am poor and thin, with a long face, and I won't gain weight. I really have nothing to rely on, the only thing I can rely on is you. ?
A happy family is precious wealth, profound knowledge and clever mind, and the support of the people is the most precious wealth. How well Lincoln spoke! Compared with Lincoln, how pale and shallow Douglas's extravagance is! Different views on wealth explain different attitudes towards life. Nowadays, when? Show off your wealth? When it becomes a fashion and money becomes the pursuit of most people, isn't Lincoln's words worth pondering? This little story can be used as our guide. Show off your wealth? The innuendo of people who enjoy themselves can also be used to explain our own outlook on wealth and life, and can also be used to alert people around us, so that we can have a correct understanding of wealth and cultivate a correct, positive and upward attitude towards life. In addition, this short story is the most vivid and powerful argument when we argue with others about wealth and outlook on life. Let's remember it.
The story of Lincoln's eloquence.
The story of Lincoln and the steps
A little boy about 1 year old was led by his young mother to the square of the park. He had to climb more than ten steps. The little boy broke free from his mother's hand and tried to climb up by himself. He climbed up with chubby little hands, and his mother didn't mean to carry him up. When he climbed two steps, he felt that the steps were very high. He looked back at his mother, who didn't mean to help him, but her eyes were full of love and encouragement. The little boy looked up again. He gave up the idea of letting his mother hold him and climbed up carefully with his hands and feet. He climbed very hard. Little ass lifted himself up, his face flushed with fatigue, the doll's clothes were covered with dirt and his hands were dirty, but he finally got up. The young mother patted the dirt on her son and kissed his red face.
This little boy is Lincoln, who later became 16 president of the United States. His mother is Nancy? Hanks.
Lincoln's father was a farmer and his family was very poor. Lincoln received formal education intermittently, which added up to less than 1 year. But from an early age, Lincoln developed the good qualities of loving knowledge, pursuing knowledge, being kind and upright, and being fearless of difficulties. He couldn't afford paper and pens, so he wrote on the board with charcoal and practiced writing on the ground with a small stick. He seized all the time to read and practice speaking. Lincoln lost his job and worked as a worker and lawyer. From the age of 29, he began to run for parliament and president. He tried 1 1 times and failed 9 times. 5 1 year-old, finally won the white house, brilliant achievements, Marx called it? World hero? . Mother Nancy died when Lincoln was 9 years old. But there is no doubt that she raised Lincoln with a strong and great maternal love, making him bravely and firmly move towards the future.
It goes without saying that there are countless steps in a person's life-living, studying and working. How to face and climb these steps of life? For children, different parents will have different answers, whether to hold hands, help them to bed or hold them to bed. Obviously, if parents hold and help their children, they will make them dependent, and often regard their parents as crutches, making it difficult to stand on their own feet. If parents hold their children on the steps, they will take them in infancy, then the children will become quilts? Holding a big generation? Without wind and rain, it is more difficult to stand on the society. Usually, children have to make ends meet, clothes have to be stretched out, they have to come to school, they have to accompany them at night, and even their parents have to follow suit when they are admitted to college? Nanny? . When the children are looking for a job after graduating from college and their parents are going to work? In this way, it is difficult for children to stand on their own feet and make great achievements.
No matter how rich you are, you can't afford to take care of your children. You might as well let your children suffer, right? Steps? Let him climb by himself. In this way, the child may be able to? In one go? Climb to the top of glory.
Lincoln practiced eloquence.
1. Read quickly
After reading his works, Lincoln tried to read quickly, limited the time, and gradually accelerated the speed, fast but not chaotic, fast and good, and finally achieved it? Recite a long poem. In this way, he not only exercised his highly sensitive thinking and excellent memory, but also exercised his excellent ability to tilt down a long list of beautiful sentences in his speech, such as rapids, waterfalls and Wan Li.
Imitate foot color reading
After choosing an excellent script, Lincoln regarded himself as an actor. Study different characters. ? Imitate different roles. Read aloud repeatedly, showing different tones, intonations and expressions. Lincoln's eloquence training speech and eloquence. He wrote a letter to the famous actor Hackett at that time: I have read several famous plays of Shakespeare, and I am more familiar with them than any non-professional reader, which enables Lincoln to imitate the tone of various characters vividly in his speech and greatly enhances the vividness of his speech. Karl Sandsborg once described Lincoln in Lincoln Biography: He would make all kinds of faces and tell funny stories?
Read aloud to the audience
Lincoln likes to read fragments of classic works vividly to others. He tried his best to win the audience and read face to face. He will read aloud in public, and he will find someone to listen to temporarily. Sometimes when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he will pick up the poem on the pillow and read it. Once he finds a particularly beautiful sentence, he often jumps out of bed in his pajamas and reads aloud to his secretary the most beautiful poem he thinks. Read cadence, as if the author is talking to someone himself.
Eloquence is not born, it is trained hard. All eloquent orators and orators in ancient and modern Chinese and foreign history. They all succeeded through hard training. I'll sort out how the speaker practices eloquence for you, hoping it will help you.
Xiao Qu, a famous speaker in China, made several speeches in the early 1980s. These speeches were very sensational and left a deep impression on everyone. When someone says he is. Natural eloquence? At that time, he smiled and said: Where is the genius? I am flattered. When I was a child, I was introverted and stuttered. The more anxious I am, the more I stutter. Sometimes my face turns red and I can't speak. Xiao Qu also put a lot of effort into practicing eloquence.
For example, in order to broaden his horizons and exercise his psychological quality, he often runs to the seaside in the cold wind in the morning and recites Gorky's prose poem Haiyan loudly. He won't let go of everything? Say? Opportunity, actively participate in debates, speech contests, recitals, drama performances, and finally make a name for yourself in high school. Go in at once? Ostrovsky's birthday party? In fact, he made a wonderful speech for two hours at a stretch, and the outline was very simple. After more than 20 years of hardships in life, the tempering of life made his eloquence perfect.
Demos Tini, a famous orator in ancient Greece, stuttered from childhood, but was determined to make a speech. In order to correct stuttering and make his speech clear, he kept practicing speaking with pebbles in his mouth. It is said that he once shut himself in his room to practice and shaved half his hair to exercise his face. Did it work? Yin and yang head? ,? Forced? Practice eloquence wholeheartedly. After 12 years of hard training, I finally embarked on the road to success.
How speakers practice eloquence: Bernard Shaw, an English drama master, critic and social activist, is famous for his eloquent eloquence. But when he was young, he was too timid to knock on the door when visiting friends. Often? Wandering around the door for 20 minutes? . Later, he got up the courage to join a? Debate club? . Don't miss any chance to argue with your opponent. Practice courage, wit and language, and you will eventually become an eloquent speaker.
His speech, his wonderful speech, is still popular today. Someone asked him how he practiced his eloquence, and he said, I taught myself to skate-I made a fool of myself stubbornly and blindly until I got used to it. ? American President Lincoln was born in a peasant family and worked as an employee, stonemason, shop assistant, helmsman and lumberjack. His social status is humble, but he never relaxes his eloquence training.