Slow Brains and Fast Tigers
One of the mysteries of the brain is why our conscious minds are so slow. We process on the order ...
How Are You at Remembering Names? You Should Know This!
Do you, like me, have trouble remembering the names of people that you meet, especially at business functions or social ...
Why Tell Stories?
Over the years, I’ve written books, blog posts, and articles, and given countless speeches, about the importance of storytelling. When ...
Are You Using Your Muscle Memory?
To be able to deliver a speech successfully, most professional speakers would agree that you need to internalize it, to ...
What If I told You That You Could. . . .?
It’s that time of year when many of us naturally start to think about making new year’s resolutions, to lose ...
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, ...
