It is usually the audience that determines how you should express yourself. When you speak, you need to be sensitive enough to understand what the audience wants. You will also need to be able to adapt the content of your speech to the tastes and needs of the audience. Skill in the broadest sense is the ability to tell people what they want to hear, but in a way that they will eventually do what you want them to do. In expressing your ideas, you should try to identify which ones are the most effective. You should attack when the audience's defenses weaken and stand dead if you feel strong resistance. When you find yourself in front of an audience, you turn into a warrior, ready to fight. You have to defeat your opponent, impose your ideas on him; use your skills, attack, walk away from the blow, watch, and so on until you find your way to victory. It's not enough just to speak elegantly: you have to convince. They say that the biggest difference between the two greatest speakers of the world, Demosthenes and Cicero, was that when Cicero spoke, people exclaimed: "How beautiful!" - and when Demosthenes spoke, they stood up and marched in the right direction.
Inspiration will help you write and give your speech. It is the inspiration that will give you the best idea to modify the report right at the moment of your speech, according to the circumstances and the prevailing mood in the room. Inspiration comes to your aid when you have to challenge the meeting or give up pre-prepared schemes and do something new, in response to the look and feel of one of the listeners, or the behavior of the audience; when you have to find new ways to express old ideas or make them attractive. Presence of spirit requires inspiration.
Dr. Valdir Tronsoko Perez, an eloquent Brazilian lawyer specializing in criminal law, is one of the wittiest and inspired speakers I have ever met. He was the guest of honor at our verbal expression course when we held our final graduation ceremony on Saturday morning. To express his admiration for what he saw during this ceremony, in which the students showed themselves to be excellent speakers, he stood up and said: "Dear graduates, when I was young, I was greedily reading and re-reading the work of a man who, in my opinion, at least then, reached the peak of his mental development and understood the depths of the human soul - the outstanding Swiss humanist Henry Frederick Amiel. In his works, along with other things, he once wrote that a man has two souls: night and daytime, which a man thinks differently night and day. He said that during the day a man is closer to reality, his animal qualities prevail, he is simpler and more primitive. At night, however, the spirit of man is lighter and thinner, he jumps and dances, the man becomes closer to God. When I was on my way here, I asked myself if a group of graduates would be able to clearly express their thoughts, speak, verbalize, and give speeches at nine in the morning, immediately after waking up. This situation seemed disgusting and unaesthetic to me because it would be much easier for you if the ceremony was held in the evening when we were really approaching the Creator, and our minds were more fine-tuned, more elegant, and more ready for the thought process. But I have come to the conclusion that even when the sun shines brightly in the sky, even in the light of day, even at dawn, nothing can darken your creative abilities, and this has made me feel deeply satisfied.
Notice how the speaker's inspiration helped him to make his speech more appealing and interesting, and how he used his knowledge to quote an important piece of work to enhance the audience's expectations. It is an excellent example of what can be done from an ordinary event and how to turn simple information into a graceful and memorable message.