When I hear the phrase “public speaking”, the first thing that comes to my mind is to understand audience. When I was 9th grader, I became one of the presidential candidates of my middle school. I had a speech before the election began. I thought I should inform my policies to voters easily. Although I was getting nervous, I focused on short speeches, clauses, and words. All sentences, phrases, and paragraphs that I used purposed to simplify, clarify, and emphasize to audience, because they are bored if the speech goes long, and hears difficult words. As a result, I headed on the poll, and elected president.
I think observing audience is really important. Every audience has their own identity. Person who knows these identities can win everything. There is one saying in Korea; “If you know your enemy and yourself, you can win every battle.” Like this, you cannot have audience intention even if you had really good speech, unless you captivate an audience. Audience’s power is gigantic. They can change everything such as presidential impeachment.
And, I think speakers are propagators. They spread information that audience should know. If they speak hardly, and longer, no one wants to listen. Speakers have a right to make audience comfortably. For instance, you can tell story when it is appropriate. I love President Kennedy’s speech skill. He used his story that makes his personal message for the audience. Also, his speech was short, and his speech style was direct yet memorable. As Kennedy did, speakers should get close to audience to make audience snugly.
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