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 ...
JOQ S3 E13: Nick chats with neuroscience speaker Graham Lutz about the importance of making mistakes
In this episode of JOQ Nick and graham have a fun but important conversation about why we need ...
Does Grammar Matter?
Does grammar matter? And did you have a teacher in your youth who insisted on drumming the rules of good ...
How Should a Coach Give Feedback?
One of the questions I’ve learned to ask as a coach before giving anyone feedback about their ideas, content, delivery, ...
My Favorite Brain Study Reveals a Startling Secret
One of my favorite brain studies was carried out in 2014 by the renowned Brian C. Clark of Ohio University, ...
The Pursuit of Happiness
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that ...
Remember: The Brain Is Still a Mystery
I write on developments in neuroscience frequently, and it’s easy to get carried away with the pace and nature of ...
We Must Hang Together, or Assuredly We Will Hang Separately
Neuroscience continues to broaden our understanding of how communications actually works, and to shift our received wisdom. Two studies that ...
How to Craft a Crowd-pleasing Speech
How do we decide what we like in a speech, as a member of the audience? The question is an ...
