Anyone can become a speaker Intense desire is the first requirement to become a public speaker. You should certainly love or at least like your own sound. You can record your speech and hear it. Anyone will love his own sound. See yourself standing before large audiences and speaking to them with confidence and hear their applause and enjoy the standing ovation. Carry the mental images until you really start getting them. It is not necessary that one has to be
handsome or beautiful, highly educated or with a ‘nice’ sound. If you study the
greatest speakers of all times it will be clear that there were all sorts of them---educated, illiterate, smart , self denying , handsome and not so handsome, people who used rhetoric and those who just spoke from their heart as if conversing to friends. The greatest speakers—the ones who produced great results range from Demosthenes who suffered from stammering to the articulate and eloquent Mark Anthony, from the lean, dark, half naked, Gandhi to the well dressed Kennedy or George Bush from reclusive Buddha to the popular Barrack Obama. Anyone can be a success, if he/she puts his body and soul into it. There are great speakers whose
sound is sweet and melodious and there are others who has very rough and highly unpleasant voice. There are
successful men speakers with a ‘female’
voice and successful females with ‘male’ voice. Your sound and voice, physical appearance education level are all immaterial. What you need is a desire to drive home what has been in burning in you for some time.
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