How’s Your Empathy Holding Up?
Public Words has been running an empathy quiz for the past 2 years, and we now have 2,000 responses. So ...
Make Every Conversation Count with Riaz Meghji
Before Riaz Meghji became a thought leader, speaker, and author of Every Conversation Counts, he was the host, for 17 ...
How Empathetic Are You? The Empathy Quiz Gives Some Clues
I’ve been speaking in Washington DC recently at a variety of government venues, talking about the ideas and research in ...
Human Empathy and the Virtual World, Part Two
This is the second of two articles adapted from my new book, Can You Hear Me?, due out from Harvard ...
Human Empathy and the Virtual World, Part One
I’ve been posting recently about the perils of our life today, living as we do half-face-to-face, half virtually, adapting the ...
The Difficulty with Online Beginnings
This post is adapted from my forthcoming book, Can You Hear Me?, to be published by Harvard in October. Recently, ...
Virtual Communication Is Flawed in Some Key Ways, Part 1
Communicating in the virtual world creates some built-in hazards for us humans because we originally evolved to communicate face to ...
Why Your Voice Is Important
I’ve often posted on the importance of the voice to public speaking (here, here, and here, among many), and to ...
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 ...
A Speaker’s — and Audience’s — Bill of Rights
We don’t have a speaker’s bill of rights, or an audience’s for that matter. But one day recently, after witnessing ...
