What Mark Twain Learned Me ’bout Public Speakin’
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What Mark Twain Learned Me ’bout Public Speakin‘ from Conor Cunneen provides wit and wisdom from the great man (Twain not Conor!) to help you craft better speeches and presentations.
NINE Lessons that spell the acronym MARK TWAIN
Mark Twain, long recognized as a wonderful author and humorist was possibly THE most successful professional speaker ever. He enthralled audiences from Berlin to Boston, from Montana to Melbourne with storytelling full of humor, pathos and humanity.
He was regarded by many as an exceptional impromptu speaker, except he wasn’t! Twain worked diligently at his craft, researching, writing, rewriting and memorizing his material.
His good friend W.D. Howells wrote that Twain “studied every word and syllable, and memorized them by a system of mnemonics peculiar to himself, consisting of an arbitrary arrangement of things on a table—knives, forks, salt-cellars; inkstands, pens, boxes, or whatever was at hand—which stood for points and clauses and climaxes, and were at once indelible diction and constant suggestion. He studied every tone and every gesture, and he forecast the result with the real audience from its result with that imagined audience. Therefore, it was beautiful to see him and to hear him; he rejoiced in the pleasure he gave and the blows of surprise which he dealt; and because he had his end in mind, he knew when to stop.”
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In this book, I showcase the words of Twain and his contemporaries via a unique MARK TWAIN acronym to highlight what Mark Twain Learned Me ’bout Public Speakin’. The nine lessons provide a memorable and implementable framework for great speech making and presentation.
The MARK TWAIN acronym spells:
Message preparation
Audience
Relate to audience
Know your objective
Titter and humor
Wait (the Pause)
Anecdote
Involve, Inform, Inspire
Narration and Stagecraft