Presentation Skills The Rightly Timed Pause

Presentation Skills

演示技巧 - 当你停止说话时，人们只开始听听。

To put it another way, one of the very best things you can ever do while speaking is to NOT.

“正确的词可能是有效的，但没有什么是有效的作为正确定时的暂停。”
Mark Twain

正确的定时暂停

Mark Twain, through erroneous attribution, is accused of saying many things, but the foregoing is not only a true quote - its one which he both deeply believed and practised.

Although Twain, nee Samuel Clemens, is remembered by most in this century for his written works, he spent the majority of his years, right up to old age, touring the world giving talks.

公开讲道

Mark Twain had to give speeches.

Having poured the profits from his books into a number of inventions and business schemes that all turned for the worst, Clemens found himself both deeply in debt and socially embarrassed by the state of his finances.

A fiercely proud man, he determined to repay all his creditors at whatever cost, and so, against his wishes, heeded the advice of friends that the world would show up wherever he chose to speak and share his special down-home American wisdom.

因为像我们大多数人一样，他如此不喜欢在一个小组面前说话，他决定探索演讲的艺术，了解如果可能有办法让自己更容易，而且这样做可以让它变得更容易观众也是。

听其他扬声器

Between his own speaking engagements he thus sought out opportunities to hear others who spoke publicly, and with the practised eye and ear for observation so apparent in his writings, became educated on the presentation skills techniques that proved effective in winning audiences.

Though much has changed in speaking styles since, if one were to study the devices used by effective speakers today, she would find many of the same things Twain discovered a century ago. Chief among them would be this: people only start listening when you stop talking.

把它放在另一个方式，说话时你可以做的最好的事情之一就是。

Learn to Pause

One of the most difficult aspects of effective public speaking that participants in our corporate classes have to learn is that for whatever it is you have to say, audiences require regular and numerous breaks to absorb the last thing you said before taking on and processing the next thing you have to say.

For most speakers, the anxiety of the presentation experience and the physiological manifestations of that anxiety cause them to not only speak too quickly but to continue to speak non-stop until they've finished their spurt so they can be done and quickly regain their seat.

Don't Try to Get Everything In

其结果称为AGS，或Al Gore综合征，所以为那个不稳定的灵魂命名，在他的2000年广告的公开验收演讲中讲话，希望如此糟糕地让他甚至不会停止他的所有观点接受掌声。

For the last 20 minutes of his speech, he spoke to a non-responding audience who had not only given up trying to reward him for his content but also on trying to digest the non-stop barrage of ideas without ever a hint of respite to do so.

For Pause Read Paragraph

You see, the pause in speaking is equivalent to the paragraph in the written word.

Paragraphs set apart one concept from the next, but structurally they do even more.

By giving the eye some white space at the end of one concept, and even a lit bit more before starting the next, the brain is given a break.

A break just long enough to take in the thought that was last delivered before having to embark on processing yet another.

Give Us a Break

All great speakers know this.

One great speaker, Bill Clinton (regardless of in what esteem one holds his political beliefs, if any, one must concede he is one) owes much of his political success to knowing the power of the pause.

In fact, most speaking experts consider Bill Clinton to be the Master of the Pause.

Clinton knows that people only start listening when you stop talking.

通过暂停来制作论证

尽管前总统在演示领奖台上显示了许多技术失败（指向和嘴唇咬名，但是今天的公共生活中没有人知道如何通过在小组之间使用简单的暂停来制作有说服力的论点。

为了最能够理解这种技术的力量，谷歌“克林顿语音”或“克林顿视频”甚至“克林顿音频”，然后点击任何出现。

Then while listening, count the number of words he puts forth before pausing (typically fewer than seven and often as few as two), and also listen for the amount of time he is silent relative to the amount of time words are flowing from his lips.

取决于演讲中你会发现,如果lence can amount to as much as 30%!

Then do the same exercise the next time your boss speaks. While your boss might be president of your company, it's also true that he didn't learn as much about presentation as some poor kid from Arkansas did and use the Power of the Pause to get to the highest position in the land.