The Power of Words
Very few of us know what we can achieve with the words that go out of our mouths. I’ve often seen people demoralize and criticize public speakers by indicating their personal level of success. That isn’t illogical, the idea to judge people not by their words but by their works. But in the meantime, we underestimate the actual power of words.
If we think about it, what we say to the people surrounding us builds our character in front of them. And deeply thought, that is how politicians become politicians unless there was nepotism involved. A true politician can win hearts with his words, and it often doesn’t matter if he had other great personal achievements. There is literally a saying that “The pen is mightier than the sword,” but the hidden fact here what we miss is that people whose pen or initials are mightier than the sword, their words are actually the most powerful in that sense. I once saw on Facebook that some teenagers were able to hack the Twitter accounts of heavily famous and influential people. People like Donald Trump, Elon Musk were on that list. And what do they do after that? They demand some money to be given to them. Hilarious, to say the least! With that much power, they could’ve started a world war.
Psychologists manipulate literal psychopaths and try to turn them into normal human beings with their words. And statistically, more often than not, psychologists end up being successful if the patients go through the whole process, even though it is not the popular opinion as many people think that psychologists are useless.
Interestingly, there is a video on YouTube featuring the same title as this article, by Toastmasters International, of the speech of 2015’s world champion, Mohammed Qahtani. He started the speech, trying to light a cigarette, which was in order to capture everyone’s attention for the breathtaking speech he delivered afterward that can leave even the people watching online with goosebumps. A quote from that speech would be,
“Words are power. Words could be your power. You can change a life, inspire a nation, and make this world a beautiful place.”
More on inspiring a nation, well, most of us know the stories of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. These people made revolutions possible that no one else could even by literally giving away money. How? With the power of their words, of course.
There is a connection between the words and the emotion; actually, it would be wrong to think not so. Emotions empower the brain to say what people want to hear. So if you ever want to become a great public speaker, focus less on your glossophobia and more on your empathy because you can still be a great public speaker like Jay Shetty or Prince EA, who are more famous because of their inspiring videos.
This part is for people who take pride in being a bookworm. Ask yourself a question, if books are only just words? And I want you to be honest about your answer. For me, yes, books are only words. Anyone can see that. But these words form a connection to our imagination, our thoughts and can create magic.
The world is too small to think that words are nothing without skills, and it is too big to say that you can make this world a beautiful place with your words.