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 ...
Which is more important – authenticity or charisma?
Which is more important to you – authenticity or charisma? Do you perhaps yearn for charisma and settle for authenticity? ...
How to Connect with an Audience Fast
Speakers, like executives, salespeople, managers, trainers, consultants, advisors, engineers – the whole information society, in fact – are terribly afraid ...
Use This Surprisingly Simple Technique to Reduce the Stress of Public Speaking
An old saying has it that a ‘problem shared is a problem halved’. It’s a nice thought – unload your ...
Listen, People!
If you are over forty and reading this blog post, you are beginning to experience –however subtly – the symptoms ...
The Pandemic Epidemic of Loneliness
A good deal has been written about the increase in negative mental health indicators during the pandemic. Drug abuse, mental ...
How’s Your Empathy Holding Up?
Public Words has been running an empathy quiz for the past 2 years, and we now have 2,000 responses. So ...
Emotion, Human Connection, and the Virtual World
Recently I was reviewing some research on popular TED talks that found that the most successful speakers used more hand ...
How to Connect with an Audience Fast
Speakers, like executives, salespeople, managers, trainers, consultants, advisors, engineers – the whole information society, in fact – are terribly afraid ...
Why Do We Have Eyebrows?
When you’re talking anthropogeny, it can be hard to tease out cause and effect. Did we humans evolve a bigger ...
