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嗯，这个问题非常好，我自己以前某个阶段也面对过这个问题。
Well, that's a very good question, and I sort of faced that at one time.
我在整个高中和大学期间，都非常非常害怕公开演讲。
I was absolutely, throughout high school and college, terrified of public speaking.
凡是需要公开演讲的课，我都会躲着，连报名都尽量不报。
And I would have— I avoided any classes, signing up for them, that would require it.
我哪怕只是想到自己必须去做这件事，身体都会不舒服，更别说真的上台去讲了。
I would get physically ill if I even thought about having to do it, let alone doing it.
后来我去上了一个 Dale——嗯，先说一开始，我先去报了名。
And I took a Dale— well, first of all, I signed up.
我那时候在 Columbia，我跑去报名参加 Dale Carnegie 的课程，给了对方一张一百美元的支票，结果回到房间以后，我又把那张支票止付了。
I went down to a Dale Carnegie course when I was at Columbia and signed up for it, gave him a check for $100, went back to my room and stopped payment on the check.
你们现在看到的台上这个人，可真是个“很有勇气”的人啊。
This is a real man of courage you're looking at up here.
后来我回到 Omaha，又看到了一则类似的广告。
And then I came out to Omaha and I saw a similar ad.
地点是在 Rome Hotel，给 Omaha 的老居民说一下，就是在 16th Street。
I was at the Rome Hotel, for you old-timers in Omaha, on 16th Street.
我就去了，这次我直接带了一百美元现金，交给了 Wally Keenan，你们当中很多人——或者说有些人——可能认识他。
And I went down there, and this time I took $100 in cash and gave it to Wally Keenan, who, who many— who some of you may know.
他是几年前去世的。
He died some years ago.
那是我第一次见到他。
First time I'd met him.
后来我上了那门课，等课程一结束，我马上就去了 University of Omaha，主动提出要开始教书，因为我知道自己必须逼自己站到人前去讲话。
And, and I took that course, and when I finished that course, I went right out to the University of Omaha and volunteered to start teaching, uh, knowing that I had to get up in front of people.
我觉得，无论是书面表达还是口头表达，沟通能力都极其重要。
I think the ability to communicate both in writing and orally is of enormous importance.
但这方面教得太少了。
Undertaught.
大多数商学院研究生项目里，他们都找不到老师来教这个，因为在他们看来，做这种看上去这么简单的事，好像有点掉价。
Most graduate business schools, they wouldn't find an instructor to do it because it would sort of be beneath them to do something so supposedly simple.
但如果你能把话讲清楚、表达得好，你就会有巨大的优势。
But if you, if you can communicate well, you have an enormous advantage.
至于你面对的这些——这些比较内向的人群，相信我，我在某些方面也相当内向，所以我想说，年轻的时候就出去练，这非常重要。
And to you who are talking to these— the group of introverted people, and believe me, I was in certain ways quite introverted, it, you know, it's important to get out there and do it while you're young.
如果等到五十岁，可能就太晚了。
If you wait till you're 50, it's probably too late.
但如果你年轻时就开始做，那就逼自己进入那些必须培养这种能力的情境里。
But if you do it while you're young, just force yourself into situations where you have to develop those abilities.
而且我觉得最好的方式，就是和一大群有同样问题的人一起练，因为这样你会发现自己并不孤单，也不会觉得自己那么傻。
And I think the best way to do that is to get in with a whole bunch of other people who are having equal problems, because then you find you're not alone and you don't feel quite as silly.
当然，Dale Carnegie 的课程就是这么做的。
And of course, that's what they did at the Dale Carnegie course.
我的意思是，我们会站到另外三十个人面前，而他们很多人连报自己名字都很困难，但过了一阵子，我们发现自己居然真的能在一群人面前把自己的名字说出来了。
I mean, we would get up in front of 30 other people who could hardly give their own name, and after a while, we found out we could actually pronounce our own name in front of a group.
我们还会站到桌子上，做各种各样傻乎乎的事，就是为了让自己跳出那个拘着的状态。
But we would stand on tables and do all kinds of silly things just to get outside of ourselves.
你们听到这里，也许已经这么想了，也许会觉得在我这个案例里有点过头了，不过那就是另一个问题了。
You may have thought it by this point, you may think it went too far in my particular case, but that's another problem.
嗯，不过如果你是在帮助内向的人走出自我，把自己打开一点，而且是跟他们一起在小组里练习，让他们看到别人也有同样的问题，这样他们自己就不会觉得那么傻了，那你做的这件事就非常有价值。
Um, but it— you're doing something very worthwhile if you're helping introverted people, uh, get outside of themselves and, and working with them in groups where they see other people have the same problem and they don't feel quite as silly themselves.
我觉得——我觉得，当你帮助一些人做到这一点的时候，你真的是在为他们做一件很有意义的事。
I think is— I think you're doing a lot for some human beings when you help them do that.
Charlie？
Charlie?
对，能有一位教育工作者过来，努力去做一件简单但重要的事，而不是什么愚蠢又无关紧要的事，这真让人很高兴。
Yeah, it's a real pleasure to have an educator come who is working to do something simple and important instead of something foolish and unimportant.
我希望他不会点名。
I hope he's not going to name names.
好，我们回到第一个问题。
Okay, let's go back to number 1.