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 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 ...
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 ...
Can Your Body and Your Brain Think Together?
One of the mysteries of the human mind that we are only beginning to delve into is the relationship between ...
How to Talk about Change
How should speakers, writers, and other communicators talk about change most effectively? Not the way we’ve been doing it. Not ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When Do Facts Beat Stories?
Speakers make or break their speeches – and careers – based on the strength of their stories and their command ...
