How Are You Going to Add Music to Your Public Speaking?
A high percentage of the population is moved by music, from pop to classical, from global to Baroque. I’ve heard ...
How Does Your Voice Measure Up?
One of the most neglected areas of potential improvement for speakers and executives who want to up their game is ...
What Do Your Audiences Remember?
How can you, a keynote speaker or perhaps a more humble everyday presenter, increase what your audience retains of your ...
How Hard Is It to Change, Really?
A study I saw recently from a few years back brought into question my long-held assumption that most people find ...
Yes, Optimism, Imagery, and Self-talk Work!
Three large studies, taken together, confirm that stress ages you, optimism extends your life, and self-talk works to help you ...
Why We Get Defensive, in Neuroscientific Terms
We are still in the early days of understanding how our brains work. Neuroscience adds to our bank of knowledge ...
Should You Smile for the Camera? Be Careful — It May Age You!
We humans smile a great deal. We smile when we’re happy; we smile when we’re sad, to disguise the feeling ...
How Long Do Emotions Last?
Every now and then I run across a neuroscientific study that makes me think in a new way, because it ...
Do you know how to be empathetic?
Listening to my good friend and fellow speaker Martin G. Moore deliver a splendid speech on leadership recently, I was ...
Trying to learn something? Beware the digital!
Two recent studies about retention and memory suggest that we should not rely wholly on digital means for learning and ...
