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Develop Self-Confidence, Improve Public Speaking

Develop Self-Confidence, Improve Public Speaking

byDale Carnegie
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A. Mishra
5.0 out of 5 starsI generally not write Reviews but..
Reviewed in India on 26 October 2018
There are two main problems I faced while reading the book, first of all it's vocabulary and secondly the reference weren't relatable at all, made the book boring. (Although reason for this is the fact is that this book is 100 years old..)

But still It is one of the best self improvement book, helped me a lot in improving in public speaking. Basically it gives you great idea on how to write your speech and some great techniques on delivering it. This book will help you get prepared.

But don't expect the that book will do it all for you, it is all the game of CONFIDENCE!! So just be more confident and awaaz me dum hona chahiye.

Nothing is impossible, from a guy whose heart beat increased rapidly when told to talk on public speaking, now I feel pretty excited and would love to speak if given a chance.
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Vikas Kumawat
3.0 out of 5 starsEssence of the book is just Practice whatever you want ...
Reviewed in India on 11 December 2017
Essence of the book is just Practice whatever you want to learn there is no other substitute not even reading this book.
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A. Mishra
5.0 out of 5 stars I generally not write Reviews but..
Reviewed in India on 26 October 2018
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There are two main problems I faced while reading the book, first of all it's vocabulary and secondly the reference weren't relatable at all, made the book boring. (Although reason for this is the fact is that this book is 100 years old..)

But still It is one of the best self improvement book, helped me a lot in improving in public speaking. Basically it gives you great idea on how to write your speech and some great techniques on delivering it. This book will help you get prepared.

But don't expect the that book will do it all for you, it is all the game of CONFIDENCE!! So just be more confident and awaaz me dum hona chahiye.

Nothing is impossible, from a guy whose heart beat increased rapidly when told to talk on public speaking, now I feel pretty excited and would love to speak if given a chance.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Must read book for everyone!!!
Reviewed in India on 27 January 2019
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There are some important points given in this book on how to prepare yourself for public speaking. But all those points and example could have been put together in 100 pages. Sometimes, its bit boring in between and again getting interesting with new examples. However, its a must read book. Well, I applied the techniques in my presentation and it worked well.
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Vikas Kumawat
3.0 out of 5 stars Essence of the book is just Practice whatever you want ...
Reviewed in India on 11 December 2017
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Essence of the book is just Practice whatever you want to learn there is no other substitute not even reading this book.
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Paresh Nagada
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book rating. 10/8.5
Reviewed in India on 23 August 2019
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Book is really Filled with Many Examples of famous speaker who faced the stage fear and after that how they took help from the book author Dale Carnegie and after that they Were able to Finish of the issues they face at their begining. You should buy this book if you really determined about public speaking and if you want to Gain More confidence.

Warning :- 1) Recommended for those who have habbit of reading.
2) Who are truly determined about it.

At some point of time you may get bored from it. But show consistency towards reading this book it will definitely help you through out the journey.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good book rating. 10/8.5
By Paresh Nagada on 23 August 2019
Book is really Filled with Many Examples of famous speaker who faced the stage fear and after that how they took help from the book author Dale Carnegie and after that they Were able to Finish of the issues they face at their begining. You should buy this book if you really determined about public speaking and if you want to Gain More confidence.

Warning :- 1) Recommended for those who have habbit of reading.
2) Who are truly determined about it.

At some point of time you may get bored from it. But show consistency towards reading this book it will definitely help you through out the journey.
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Vivek R.
4.0 out of 5 stars Improvemet is sure!!!! Buy it.
Reviewed in India on 27 December 2018
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Masterpiece of carnegie!!
Book is fantastic!!!!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Improvemet is sure!!!! Buy it.
By Vivek R. on 27 December 2018
Masterpiece of carnegie!!
Book is fantastic!!!!
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Riya
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Dale Carnegie book to buy
Reviewed in India on 9 October 2019
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Amazing book. I have purchased Logolepsy books offline. I am happy to see there books online.
Thank you Amazon for such quick delivery.

Key Features-

* Shrink Packaging of books to avoid soiling. Excellent packaging I must say!
* FSC Grade Natural shade text paper which makes the book very light-weighted and portable
* The cover has a beautiful design with an amazing matte lamination!
* Cost is pretty much justified for a book finishing of this quality.

If you are looking for Dale Carnegie or self-help books, this is your one stop solution.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Dale Carnegie book to buy
By Riya on 9 October 2019
Amazing book. I have purchased Logolepsy books offline. I am happy to see there books online.
Thank you Amazon for such quick delivery.

Key Features-

* Shrink Packaging of books to avoid soiling. Excellent packaging I must say!
* FSC Grade Natural shade text paper which makes the book very light-weighted and portable
* The cover has a beautiful design with an amazing matte lamination!
* Cost is pretty much justified for a book finishing of this quality.

If you are looking for Dale Carnegie or self-help books, this is your one stop solution.
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Satyajit Banerjee
2.0 out of 5 stars Good content + poor publishing
Reviewed in India on 29 June 2021
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I'm no one to judge this book. But the print is very bad. I mean at some places you wouldn't even understand the meaning of a sentence. I can understand it's really a old book, but the publisher could take a bit more time to check the mistakes. Almost every para has something which will give you a hard time to understand. Didn't face the same thing while reading "how to Win friends and influence people" from the same publisher.

Also the book is kinda ageless. A lot has changed in the world of public speaking. So go with your own style, but this book can help you clear out some important aspect. 🙌🏽

Book content 4/5
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Ratheesh R
4.0 out of 5 stars For people who have patience to refer to dictionary every now and then
Reviewed in India on 21 May 2021
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A good book to understand the nuisances of public speaking. I would recommend this books for someone who has some command over English. All the examples given on the books from native English public speaker (I skipped some coz of compound English). Language used in the book is little advance which makes you to refer to dictionary very often. Apart from that, an excellent book to improve your public speaking skills and to improve your vocabulary.
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Aman Pratap Singh
5.0 out of 5 stars A must have!!
Reviewed in India on 30 August 2020
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This book is a companion to Carnegie's other classic, "How to Win Friends and Influence People". So some of the anectodes, passages, and principles are shared (such as Carnegie's fascination with the life of ex-US president Abraham Lincoln). And the reading of both books offers a complementary set of ideas and skills that share the same aim: learning to deal with other people, publicly and privately.

Not only is this a comprenhensive guide to developing the art of public speaking (a job it performs as it should: offering an emphasis on practice and practical, specific advice)...but by trying to solve that particular problem so ambitiously, it ends up offering the solutions an endless set of areas of life.

This book is, escentially, a discussion of every problem that involves the process of gathering and communicating ideas. "Gathering and communicating ideas"... it is what these days gets mistakingly refered to as "the creative process". Every form of art and design, from writting, to drawing, to acting, falls into this cathegory of "gathering ideas and then communicating them to an audience".

If you engage in one of these "creative activities"...have you ever gone through an "art block"? that frustrating mental block that inhabilates your action and stops you from generating ideas/putting them on paper? well, thinking of a speech in real-time is a race that makes you jump through the same hurdles. The methods described to make speeches here, effectively deal with those same barriers. By consciously applying those techniques, you could theorically overcome any "art block" that gets in the way.

Ever been gotten stuck while learning *something*? preparing a speech requires proper *internalization* of the material, and this book covers tons of methods for internalization and deep understanding that are as applicable to speech-making as they are to learning /any/ theorical material.

But at its core, what makes this stand out is its standing, valiant, daring desire to actually, honestly, humbly speak about that (much mentioned, but seldom defined) concept known as "human nature".

The author goes to great leghts to identify what is it that makes people *tick*.

What are the principles that rule our lives and that will make us *do* things- like let someone give us a lecture? what makes people INTERESTED in things? if we make the conscious descision to understand those principles, to disect them and review them fearlessly, then those principles will be the applicable to every single area of our lives. Whenever we might need to infleunce people to take action, or to win them to our way of thinking... to make our ideas clear; or simply to entertain...that whole process is described so beautifully and thoughtfully that it is what gives this text its trascendential quality.
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The one flaw in this text (not nearly as evident in HTWFAIP) is the same present in most other western classics of the 20th century: it is uncomfortably bigoted. There are a considerable ammount of racist passages and anectodes, and the evangelist christianist perspective gets tiring very quickly. Althought these features aren't prevalent enough to make it un-readable, it does make getting through some reasings slightly more difficult and hinders the overall message sometimes.

(I do not know however if newer editions have been edited to take out said problematic material, which is certainely possible. The book I own was a second-hand copy purchased in a book-fair years ago...and it doesn't even have the year of printing or editorial house!)

With all that said...considering how this book offers solutions to many other problems not inherent to public speaking, it should be obligatory reading to almost anybody who deals in any way with the act of communication, at any point in their lives!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must have!!
By Aman Pratap Singh on 30 August 2020
This book is a companion to Carnegie's other classic, "How to Win Friends and Influence People". So some of the anectodes, passages, and principles are shared (such as Carnegie's fascination with the life of ex-US president Abraham Lincoln). And the reading of both books offers a complementary set of ideas and skills that share the same aim: learning to deal with other people, publicly and privately.

Not only is this a comprenhensive guide to developing the art of public speaking (a job it performs as it should: offering an emphasis on practice and practical, specific advice)...but by trying to solve that particular problem so ambitiously, it ends up offering the solutions an endless set of areas of life.

This book is, escentially, a discussion of every problem that involves the process of gathering and communicating ideas. "Gathering and communicating ideas"... it is what these days gets mistakingly refered to as "the creative process". Every form of art and design, from writting, to drawing, to acting, falls into this cathegory of "gathering ideas and then communicating them to an audience".

If you engage in one of these "creative activities"...have you ever gone through an "art block"? that frustrating mental block that inhabilates your action and stops you from generating ideas/putting them on paper? well, thinking of a speech in real-time is a race that makes you jump through the same hurdles. The methods described to make speeches here, effectively deal with those same barriers. By consciously applying those techniques, you could theorically overcome any "art block" that gets in the way.

Ever been gotten stuck while learning *something*? preparing a speech requires proper *internalization* of the material, and this book covers tons of methods for internalization and deep understanding that are as applicable to speech-making as they are to learning /any/ theorical material.

But at its core, what makes this stand out is its standing, valiant, daring desire to actually, honestly, humbly speak about that (much mentioned, but seldom defined) concept known as "human nature".

The author goes to great leghts to identify what is it that makes people *tick*.

What are the principles that rule our lives and that will make us *do* things- like let someone give us a lecture? what makes people INTERESTED in things? if we make the conscious descision to understand those principles, to disect them and review them fearlessly, then those principles will be the applicable to every single area of our lives. Whenever we might need to infleunce people to take action, or to win them to our way of thinking... to make our ideas clear; or simply to entertain...that whole process is described so beautifully and thoughtfully that it is what gives this text its trascendential quality.
_

The one flaw in this text (not nearly as evident in HTWFAIP) is the same present in most other western classics of the 20th century: it is uncomfortably bigoted. There are a considerable ammount of racist passages and anectodes, and the evangelist christianist perspective gets tiring very quickly. Althought these features aren't prevalent enough to make it un-readable, it does make getting through some reasings slightly more difficult and hinders the overall message sometimes.

(I do not know however if newer editions have been edited to take out said problematic material, which is certainely possible. The book I own was a second-hand copy purchased in a book-fair years ago...and it doesn't even have the year of printing or editorial house!)

With all that said...considering how this book offers solutions to many other problems not inherent to public speaking, it should be obligatory reading to almost anybody who deals in any way with the act of communication, at any point in their lives!
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Rajkumar Mathur
4.0 out of 5 stars Exceptionally good to read
Reviewed in India on 28 July 2022
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This is one for all those who wants to become an excellent speaker.
Just pick it up and gulp it. That's all.
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