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 ...
How Speakers Need to Forget
Starting this week I'm going to one post a week, for the summer. That way we can all take a ...
Is Anger Addictive? Is It Worse Online?
Can we actually become addicted to anger? I’ve posted a number of times about how we seem to be living ...
How to Make Virtual Meetings Dull – and In-Person Ones Too
This is my week for guest posts. Andrea Driessen is the author of a new book, The Non-Obvious Guide to ...
