I Have Something to Say - Mastering the Art of Public Speaking in an Age of Disconnection
epub | 764.38 KB | English | Author :John Bowe | 1400062101 | 2020 | Random House Publishing Group

Book Description :

A veteran journalist discovers an ancient system of speech techniques for overcoming the fear of public speaking-and reveals how they can profoundly change our lives.
In 2010, award-winning journalist John Bowe learned that his cousin Bill, a longtime extreme recluse living in his parents' basement, had, at the age of fifty-nine, overcome a lifetime of shyness and isolation-and gotten happily married. Bill credited his turnaround to Toastmasters, the world's largest organization devoted to teaching the art of public speaking.
Fascinated by the possibility that speech training could foster the kind of psychological well-being more commonly sought through psychiatric treatment, and intrigued by the notion that words can serve as medicine, Bowe set out to discover the origins of speech training-and to learn for himself how to speak better in public.
From the birth of democracy in Ancient Greece until two centuries ago, education meant, in addition to...

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