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"Impromptu"; or, How to Think on Your Feet - Kleiser Grenville
Grenville Kleiser
Impromptu
; or, How to Think on Your Feet
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4066338065643
Table of Contents
IMPROMPTU
IMPROMPTU!
LIST OF SUBJECTS
SPECIMEN ONE-MINUTE SPEECHES
A MINUTE
LINCOLN AS A SPEAKER
SALESMANSHIP
PROVIDENCE
BISMARCK
GEORGE WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE
BREVITY
PUBLIC SPEAKING
HENRY CLAY
WOMAN AND SPEECH
BOYS
VOTES FOR WOMEN
LINCOLN
THE VALUE OF THE PUBLIC SPEAKING CLUB TO THE BUSINESS MAN
THE STUDY OF FORENSIC ELOQUENCE
THE STUDY OF FORENSIC ELOQUENCE
IMPROMPTU
Table of Contents
IMPROMPTU!
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The game of Impromptu
is the outgrowth of an exercise devised by the author and used by him in The Public Speaking Club of America.
A number of cards, each bearing a separate subject, are placed in a hat. Then a member of the club stands up, selects one of the cards, announces the subject named on the card, and proceeds to speak on that particular theme for one minute. At the expiration of that time another member rings the bell.
This exercise can be carried on by two or more persons. It is surprizing how rapidly through this simple pastime one gains facility in speech and increased self-confidence. Many of these maiden efforts
at impromptu speaking are necessarily very funny, and sometimes send the listeners into fits of laughter; but the basis of the exercise is serious, and there is disclosed new and unsuspected talent in the participants.
The ability to think and speak on one's feet
is not usually a gift of nature, but is acquired through simple and regular practise. Curran, the distinguished Irish orator, was known in his early days as Stuttering Jack.
He has described his first experience in attempting to speak before a small debating club. On standing up, he trembled from head to foot, and when he saw all eyes fixt upon him—there were seven persons present!—he became almost petrified with fear. His friends cried Hear him!
but altho his lips moved, not a sound came from them. He profited by his experience, however, since through study and practise he became one of the greatest orators of his day.
Impromptu
implies ready, offhand, without previous study or preparation, and provides one of the best tests of a man's fund of thought and readiness in expression. In practising Impromptu
the student is advised to set his mind rapidly to work the instant he reads the subject on the card chosen, to content himself with the first idea that comes to him, and to speak very deliberately. This will give the appearance of self-possession, while permitting his mind to reach out for fresh material. So rapidly does the mind work that, after a little practise, the speaker will be able to arrange his thoughts in a certain sequence, even in the few seconds that elapse between choosing his subject and uttering the first word.
A conscientious student will endeavor to make each succeeding effort better than the last. He will aim to keep strictly to his subject, to speak fluently, to employ the best possible language, and to express only those ideas that are worth while. Where circumstances render it necessary, one may practise the exercise by himself.
A list of subjects is offered here (which the student may himself supplement), together with specimen one-minute speeches prepared and delivered by the author's pupils. A man who has himself well in hand and knows precisely what he wants to talk about, can make a most interesting speech