How Public Speaking Can Make You a Better Person
Charlie “Tremendous” Jones said, “You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
As a speaker, you should and likely will read a lot of books written by inspiring people. You will also meet many wonderful, interesting, motivated, and achievement-oriented people. If what Charlie Jones said is true, then over time you will be changed, for the better, by those books and people.
In addition to being changed by books and people, you can be changed by the act of speaking in front of groups of people.
In his book, The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking, Dale Carnegie said that “overcoming the fear of public speaking has tremendous transfer value to everything that we do. Those who answer this challenge find that they are better persons because of it. They find that their victory over the fear of talking before groups has taken them out of themselves into a richer and fuller life.”
It seems Dale Carnegie’s point is that public speaking can help us become more confident and thus more capable of achievement in every area of life.
Those benefits — becoming better because of the books you read and the people you meet, as well as achievement-enhancing increased confidence — are available to you through public speaking.
