Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.
Interpretation
The essence of effective communication is to share your experiences so that others can truly understand and feel them.
This quote emphasizes the importance of connecting with an audience on a deeper emotional level. Dale Carnegie suggests that the ultimate goal of communication is not merely to convey information, but to allow others to fully experience your perspectives and emotions, enriching their understanding and engagement with the message.
In practice
In a public speaking workshop, to encourage participants to focus on emotional engagement with their audience.
When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
The worst thing about e-mail is that you canβt interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. Itβs frustrating and itβs time-consuming. God bless phone calls.
There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and possibility: people, without a plan, could speak a spontaneous, unexpected truth, because revelation rules. Telling words recur in this smart, generous conversation between Stephen Andrews and Gregg Bordowitz: patience, responsibility, feminism, ethics, cosmology, AIDS, gift, freedom, mortality.
Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.
COMMUNICATION: If I had to pick a first rule of communication-the one practice above all others that opens the door to connecting with others-it would be to look for common ground. Too often people see communication as the process of transmitting massive amounts of information to other people. But that's the wrong picture. Communication is a journey. The more that people have in common, the better the chance that they can take that journey together.
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