Show 1 H I r a vl I 1 I 1 fI WI t J I n GEO G Gand G em j u 14 E il L 1 I land and I u r Ji h h t d It h c b rad 1 V Q t stand t nd before large 1 audiences and and scoff at and andt world holds dear diar marriage democracy and almost other M 1 of f from fr m shyness h and a d tl timidity and i iD an inferiority We i J complex an ny who 00 knows him Imagine him film as a ever ver bavin tad kad b an pt J I realize that th the he once CC e suffered Intensely teA 1 from Fran I timidity I Ii Ih I I le Here He liege is his bis own description I r tion of how ow he bereft felt be be- be fore he h conquered these inner enemies I I I 1 suffered s such i S t 1 t D Do a Cam walked up and down the Embankment mb for M 10 O minutes or more before venturing ven ring to knock at t the the t e door where I had planned to call can Indeed I deed J should h uJ I given up altogether and hurried home bome asking s t wile the use torturing myself when it was so 80 easy to run tUn way HJ had hadnot not been instinctively aware that 1 X must never tet myself my of off in this manner if I ever meant to do the world Few men have suffered more than I did in my youth from sun aim sim pie cowardice cowardice or have been more horribly ashamed of it It Finally he hit bit upon what he considered the best and quickest and surest way ever yet yei et devised to to con con- conquer conquer quer timidity and bear an opinion n in which I heartily concur He joined j led a debating d bating l society Ue He learned to t speak in public He Ht says lara that that t the first few tune is bV h rota oe to speak before an audience be was w to 10 so nervous nervo i t tiM M t bl hi J couldn't Bead fead read th the notes beheld be held In fa his hta trembling l hands hands and without notes he be b couldn't remember what he in In h tended tended to say I Y He e frequently sat eat do down in IWi and an l t humiliation humiliation positive that h h bad madea a fool f of ff f self something ing which happens happens to by far the greatest t tI percentage of those who first tint speak peak befort an audi I ence But so fierce was his determination every to conquer his shyness and self-consciousness self that he attended every meeting in Lon Lan Landon don dOD where there was to be a public discussion and nd he always rose rose and took part in the debate For almost almOt every ev other night for twelve years George Bernard Shaw stood on Oft street at corners cornea debating with hecklers klers tossing off the insults f the the unbelief era ers and making himself one of the most brilliant pe speakers speaker cra sy and aDd d debaters of his age But George Bernard Shaw never took for his subject something wasp tom thing thing- in which wh ch he was not truly interested fired by enthusiasts enthusiasm Since he was interested in so many man many things this was wai bot lUCIa a difficult task And nd theres there's a lesson lesson r in his bis story for anyone who Is beset by those two devastating traits shyness lyness and sari When Wh n speaking in public take for your ur subject something la fa which w h you are so interested that you yOU can forget atoll and r hick thi k only of it it |