Harvard Manager's Communication Etiquette -- Material For Speaking (2)

For a lofty future, we should not be too lazy, too careless and too casual. We must force ourselves to do what we want to do now.

"He went out to look for a donkey, but he found a kingdom."

This is to say that people often have this kind of adventure. What they had asked for was very small, but the result was infinitely rewarding.

Learning eloquence, you will not only acquire eloquence in the future, but more than twice as much as the eloquence.

What is this kingdom? It is your great and rich life! Your whole quality and all aspects of ability will be greatly improved.

On the one hand, we should know how to absorb and understand how to apply.

As long as we know how to apply, even a common saying, it will often get amazing results.

There is a philanthropist who mobilize his friends to raise money to build a church. It is very difficult to raise money.

He has a friend who intends to give up the job and cites an ancient poem "ten knocks on the door and nine doors" to illustrate the difficulty of raising money.

"Ten knocking on the door and nine not to open up" really describes the situation of raising funds hard, and it is really frustrating.

But the philanthropist used the same sentence in another way to get the opposite effect.

He said, "yes, our present situation is that ten knocks on the wood door and the nine does not open; but this also means that ten knocks on the door of the wood.

Well, we have to knock on the ten door, as long as we work hard, knock dozens of doors.

So he put the sentence on the ten door to the nine door and opened the poem, and developed into "hundred knocking at the door and opening ten doors", which really encouraged his friends and completed the donation.

Once there was an inventor who wanted to invent something. He and his assistant had already conducted one thousand six hundred and forty-two experiments, but they failed.

His assistant said, "you see, there are one thousand six hundred and forty-two tests, but no use at all.

The inventor said, "why is it useless? This makes us realize that the one thousand six hundred and forty-two methods can not be successful, and that we must look beyond these one thousand six hundred and forty-two methods to succeed.

A musician was kept in a prison and often played the violin. The day before the execution, the jailer asked him, "tomorrow you are dead. What else do you do today?"