Enthusiasm is what appeal most
What is the attribute of a successful speaker? Many people have stressed on the word-enthusiasm. But how? To be enthusiastic, you have to act enthusiastic, as somebody said; Action precedes motivation. Similarly, if you act enthusiastic, you too will feel enthusiastic.
If you were discussing or talking about purely mental subjects on science or history for instance, it doesn’t require much enthusiasm on your part. But if you were talking on subjects in order to win support or sympathy, then enthusiasm rules-the one thing you just couldn’t ignore it.
You see in the political campaigns where candidates talk with enthusiasm and seemingly with melodramatic outburst. They don’t go round reasoning with the public why you should vote for them in the first place, for such is always a losing battle.
There’s only one way to get your feeling into the speech, whatever else you seem ignorant about, never ignore this: Be enthusiastic by entering into the picture so deeply. If you were talking about famine; imagine yourself living amongst those poverty-stricken refugees who hardly have got enough to survive, picture yourself being one of those children who are malnourished, yet they have to slave their ways through each day, as a mean to survive. Get the idea?
Enter it so deeply that you too can’t help feeling sorry about it, and in that expressing it out through every word you say, every gesture you show and every single breath of yours. Such feeling is the blood and life of a speech itself. Without which is a sure losing battle. Impart your feeling and be enthusiastic.