Is Positive Thinking a Mistake?
Two studies published last year cast a bit of shade on the power of positive thinking and of avoiding negative ...
Update on Stage Fright for 2024
Over the years, I’ve often recommended using positive mantras to help you deal with stage fright of all kinds and ...
Is Small Talk a Waste of Time?
Why do we humans make small talk? We spend a lot of time worrying about how to chit-chat amusingly, or ...
How to Interact with Audiences, Part Five
This is the fifth of a six-part series. One of the consistent surprises for me in the keynote speaking world ...
How to Interact with Audiences, Part 2
The second of six posts on how to interact with audiences. One of the consistent surprises for me in the ...
Healing Humans Requires the Communal Touch
I posted earlier this year about how a recent study showed that a single conversation a day with another human ...
How to Calm Your Stage Fright
What causes your body to jump into an adrenaline response? For most of us, snakes, spiders, and other creepy crawly ...
Are You Optimizing Your Voice?
I'm pleased to include a post by a new member of the PW team, Jessica Cooper, who is an accomplished voice coach ...
The Pursuit of Happiness
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that ...
How Empathetic Are We? Has the Pandemic Turned Us into Trolls?
If, like me, you’re a little worried about the state of humanity post-pandemic, then our Empathy Quiz will be of ...
