Which is the more important?

 

7. What effect does confidence on the part of the speaker have on the audience?

 

8. Write out a two-minute speech on "Confidence and Cowardice."

 

9. What effect do habits of thought have on confidence? In this connection read

the chapter on "Right Thinking and Personality."

 

10. Write out very briefly any experience you may have had involving the

teachings of this chapter.

 

11. Give a three-minute talk on "Stage-Fright," including a (kindly) imitation

of two or more victims.

 

CHAPTER II

 

THE SIN OF MONOTONY

 

One day Ennui was born from Uniformity.

 

--MOTTE.

 

Our English has changed with the years so that many words now connote more than

they did originally. This is true of the word _monotonous_. From "having but one