The Dangers of Faulty Thinking
I took part in a logic training course years ago, an extra-curricular course designed to make better debaters of us ...
Do You Want the Bad News or the Good News First? How Neuroscience Can Help Us Be Better Speakers
Neuroscientists are now able to tell us startlingly specific things about how our brains work. Recent research details ways to ...
How to Change Minds with a Speech
What’s the best way to prepare people for change? This question is one that we speakers often ask ourselves, more ...
How to Use Memory to Help with Stage Fright
We know from a good deal of research on memory how unreliable it is, partly because retrieving a memory is ...
How to Bring a Little Joy to Zoom
Four months into the pandemic here in the US means four months since much of the workforce has gone from ...
Memory, Virtual Speaking, and Covid-19
I’ve been thinking and researching about memory lately, because I’m curious to see how our learning abilities (of which memory ...
Why do we misunderstand each other more than ever before?
For this week's post, here's a brief video delving into the communications challenges we all face in the half-real, half-virtual ...
How Helpful Is Failure Really?
Failure is fashionable. At least to judge from the public speaking world, where it is a popular topic and where ...
When Do Facts Beat Stories?
Speakers make or break their speeches – and careers – based on the strength of their stories and their command ...
Information Is Addictive – and That’s Good News for Speakers
My good friend Mitch Joel and I share a trait: we’re both infovores. An infovore is someone who “indulges in ...
