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’s Good for Your (Speaker’s) Brain in 2025?
As the new year is getting under steam, you may be sliding into some New Year’s resolutions, or you may ...
Speakers’ Resolutions for a Successful 2025
If you’re having trouble setting your public speaking goals and resolutions for 2025, here are three to get started on ...
Are You Using Your Muscle Memory?
To be able to deliver a speech successfully, most professional speakers would agree that you need to internalize it, to ...
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 ...
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 ...
How to Learn (or Teach) Something New
What’s the best way to learn or to teach something new? A few recent studies suggest some surprising twists on ...
In Defense of Freezing
Those of us in the speaking world talk variously about stage fright, or nerves, or adrenaline, but when we’re getting ...
How Good Are We at Detecting Liars?
How good are we at reading each other’s body language? This is an essential question for communication, since we convey ...
How Our Brains Trick Us When We Try to Communicate
Two ongoing developments in neuroscience push us to realize that our lived experience of the world is not really what’s ...
