The 15 Forces that Motivate Us Humans
Humans are beautifully, gorgeously complex, and that means that communicating with them is perennially challenging. But every now and then ...
What Makes a Speech Successful?
What is the best possible time to deliver a speech? A study about when people are at their most cogent ...
How to Prepare a Keynote Speech
There’s a lot of misunderstanding about what it takes to prepare a successful keynote speech – and a successful keynote ...
Can You Use Jungian Archetypes to Create a Great Speech?
It has been a while since I talked about archetypes, but I was thinking about them lately because of a ...
Why Tell Stories?
Over the years, I’ve written books, blog posts, and articles, and given countless speeches, about the importance of storytelling. When ...
How to Change if You Really Have to
This week, give or take a bit, is about the time most people give up on their New Year’s resolutions. ...
What If I told You That You Could. . . .?
It’s that time of year when many of us naturally start to think about making new year’s resolutions, to lose ...
Reasons for Speakers to Be Grateful
It’s the week of American Thanksgiving, 2024, and what better time to start reflecting on the year (in between meals) ...
Thinking Hurts — Here’s One Thing to Do about It
It hurts to think. A huge research project that studied 5,000 people in 29 countries found that we would rather ...
Are You on a Vacation or a Holiday?
A recent study got me thinking about the use of language to indicate connection. The study shows that we are ...
