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 ...
Acting and Neuroscience
I’ve been thinking about acting and speaking this week, and so naturally a study talking about the neuroscience of acting ...
What’s the Difference Between Acting and Speaking?
A recent question by pal John Keating reminded me that I had been meaning to do a blog post on ...
Alan Alda on Improv, Empathy, and his New Book
I first encountered Alan Alda as the irreverent, anti-war doctor in M*A*S*H* the TV show. It was one of those ...
The Think Method Actually Works!
Among my favorite psychological studies recently is one that shows that imagining exercise is almost as good as actually doing ...
How to Communicate with Passion
I’m going to close out 2014 with a final word on passion. I’ve talked all year about techniques, neuroscience, and ...
How Public Speaking Has Evolved
Stage acting in the Victorian period would seem bizarrely and hilariously stylized to us today. The technique was based on ...
Presenters: Do You Walk on Stage or Take the Stage?
Good actors come on stage, deliver their lines, and leave. Great actors take the stage. Great speakers need to do ...
When Is Rehearsing a Presentation a Bad Idea?
When is rehearsing a presentation a bad idea? Clients often try to talk themselves out of rehearsal, because they’re pressed ...
There are no mistakes: How jazz can help public speakers
If you’re a public speaker you live some intense moments of your life in the limelight, on stage, in front ...
