Multiple Mentalism as an Aid in Public Speaking
Chapter V tells you how many men and women have overcome self-consciousness through Multiple Mentalism. Their “multiple minds”, acquired by means of this training, enables them to be conscious of themselves without being self-conscious. This is the first step to effective public speaking.
But this course goes even further in equipping you to speak well, to large or small audiences. Quite aside from the reason given above, our new brain development gives you the self-confidence --- self-assurance --- the innate knowledge that you can cope with the situation when you rise to your feet and begin to talk. This has a steadying influence which makes your words impressive and convincing.
In addition, you will find that you speak more clearly and logically than ever before. Your brain is better able to marshall facts and to present them in their most reasonable sequence. No longer need you utter your arguments in the order in which they presented themselves to you when planning your speech, or in which you may originally have memorized them. Your training in jumbling of letters of words and the words of sentences permits you easily to intermingle your arguments in the order that seems to you most effective. If other speakers have preceded you, and you wish either to rebut what they have said or to emphasize arguments that were lacking in strength as they gave them, your mind is nimble enough to fit this new material into what you had planned to say, and to do it coherently and appealingly.
Interruptions cannot throw you off your stride, thanks to the discipline to which you have subjected your brain. If you find it necessary to pause, waiting for exactly the right word to come to mind, you will not be embarrassed or flustered by your momentary hesitation. On the contrary, your calmness and deliberation will have a favorable effect on your listeners. They will be impressed, consciously or subconsciously, by your cool and collected manner. You will find yourself able to sway audiences as never before!
This advantage alone, disregarding all the other tremendous benefits of Multiple Mentalism, may mean thousands of dollars to you. As you advance in the business, professional or political world, you will meet increasing demands for formal or informal talks. Your ability to fulfill these demands so readily can mean the favorable vote of an important board of directors; the welding together of a political body that will carry you to prominence and greater opportunity! If it accomplished nothing else, the help that Multiple Mentalism can give you in public speaking is absolutely priceless!
Exercise X:
Have you noticed that the exercises are getting shorter and easier to explain, but increasingly difficult to do? That shows that you are approaching the climax and reaching the peak of mental power! Exercise X, for example, takes only a few lines to explain but sets you a real task in concentration and calls upon principles you have mastered earlier in your training.
Take pencil and paper. Write a word of seven or more letters correctly while, at the same time, you spell aloud another word (preferably of the same number of letters). In other words: WriteENGRAVE slowly, while you spell aloud E-V-E-N-I-N-G. When you write E (for “engrave”), say E (for “evening”); when you write N, say V; write G and say E; write R and say N; write A and say I, write V and say N; and write E as you say G. That gives your brain cells a workout!
Practice doing this with seven-letter and longer words. Do it fully one hour a day until you have the knack of it down pat.
Next: Write one word backward, and spell another forward, aloud. I mean: Write ETALER (RELATE) while you call off, aloud, the letters L I S T E N, just as you did in the first part of this drill EXCEPT that one word, the written one, is now to be done backward.
You will find this more difficult than the first section of Exercise X --- but stick to it and you will be giving your mind some more exceedingly helpful training!
Multiple Mentalism Brain Stimulator: Mental Agility Drill
Drill A
Below is a sentence pertaining to an important event in American history. The words, however, have all been misplaced. See how quickly you can reassemble them into a coherent sentence:
two ninety Columbus fourteen year discovered the America in of
Drill B
The letters in the names of six famous men have been intermingled. Each name contains six letters. See how quickly you can unscramble them and identify the six famous men. The underlined letters are the first initial.
Here is a clue: One an ex-president -- an inventor -- a financier -- a tennis champion
-- a leader with many followers -- a judge.
E N W I H N D A I D U E I G L N G D S R S A H L O O O H E I N M N G S T
Drill C
As with the names above, the names of three American rivers are here given. Each river has eleven letters in its name. The thirty-three letters have been jumbled. What are the three rivers?
S I H M I A Q S N S H N I S M E N U G A N P I L A O U O P E S A S
Drill D
As in the two drills above, letters have again been jumbled. This time, the names of four minerals have their letters intermingled. The names are of unequal length. What are the minerals?
R H C C M M R L A E O O U U E A D L P P I I
Drill E
This is somewhat more involved --- a good limbering up exercise for your mind.
the letters in two sentences have been intermingled. One sentence concerns a
household pet --- the other concerns the weather. Both are short and simple,
containing four short words each. See how long it takes you to decipher the two
sentences.
T h I m y r d r n g t i o y d n w y a a o a t a a a e
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