Reported by: ZHENG Jun and HAO Baokun
Translated by: XIANG Cong
Edited by: Patti Broderick
Updated: 2012-3-26
March 12th, well-known Guangdong TV host of Financial Lang eye, WANG Mudi, was the guest of HIT’s New Basic Club. He shared with freshman students his Philosophy of Public Life. WANG’s incisive style, humor, and candor entertained the audience as he focused on how to deliver a speech and become a successful speaker
He introduced five ways for people to conduct and express themselves publicly: speaking, debating, emceeing, negotiating, and self-introducing. WANG looked back on his own experience of starting a debate association and winning the Peking University speech championship. “It’s a speech when there are more than three people listening;” WANG explained, “Acting and speaking are two different concepts; and the best speech combines acting with speaking.” A successful speaker should speak colloquially using short sentences.”
WANG pointed out that the best speakers acquire massive information about anything and everything, develop their aura by temperament and charm, hang on to their personal values, and pay attention to their “four senses”-- sense of scene, logic, profession, and human nature.
WANG said, “How successful a person’s life will be, relates directly to how many books he reads.” His closing words were that, “reading is a kind of hurting; and thinking is a kind of healing.” He recommended several books: A Short History of Chinese Philosophy (1948) written by Feng Youlan (1895–1990), Outline of History of the Nation (1940) by Ch’ien Mu (1895-1990); Crying in the Drizzle (2003) and Brothers (2005 novel) by Yu Hua (1960-), History of Science, and A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century (1998) by (Leften Stavros Stavrianos (1913-2004).
