In order to get the most out of
your efforts to become a good speaker and to get it with rapidly and dispatch,
three things are essential:
FIRST: START WITH A STRONG AND PERSISTANT DESIRE
This is of far more importance
than you probably realize. If an instructor could look into your mind and heart
now and ascertain the depth of your desires he could foretell, almost with
certainty, the swiftness of progress you will make. If your desire is pale and
flabby, your achievements will also take on that hue and consistency but, if
you go after your subject with persistence, and with the energy of bulldog
after a cat, nothing underneath the Milky Way will defeat you think of what it
may mean to you socially. It will increase your personal influence, of the
leadership it will give you. And it will give you leadership more rapidly than
almost any activity you can think of or imagine.
