Hello again.
Could you be the next Barack Obama?
Probably not - but you could be every bit as successful in your own way, once you understand exactly why Obama beat John McCain and Sarah Palin to become the next president of the USA.
That a man with so little experience was able to beat a respected veteran politician into second place is largely down to a quality that has seen him compared with John Kennedy.
Call it presence, charisma, stature or oratory skill, the fact is that Obama, for all his undoubted qualities, has overcome the odds thanks to his ability to engage his public by speaking to them in a way that makes people like, admire and respect him. In short, Barack Obama is a great public speaker. It's probably a gift, and it's reinforced by his undoubted intelligence and even a sense of destiny, but it's still a skill that we can all become better at.
And you don't have to be on a podium to benefit from confident public speaking, as Obama has shown us: working a crowd - networking to you and me - also helps separate the winners from the runners-up.
Probably the world's most famous expert of the art of speaking to a public is Dale Carnegie - there can't be many people who haven't at least heard of How to Make Friends and Influence People. But Dale Carnegie was expounding on the art of public speaking years earlier.
Now you can read his original masterpiece on the subject, called The Art of Public Speaking, when you accept my offer of three more modern volumes on the topic of success through public speaking, below:
To your success!
Roy
PS. Ok, you will not become the next president of the USA but you will get a lot nearer to being the best that you can be, when you read The Art of Public Speaking.
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