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The story you tell yourself is the most important story. You learn that story from a thousand sources – your caregivers, your authority figures, your family, friends, peers, teachers, and your experiences. What story do you tell yourself? I buried myself in books as a child to escape a ferocious family. While they were busy ...
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At the simplest level, let’s call it Level One, public speaking is a performance. The speaker appears in front of a passive audience and delivers a scripted (more or less) combination of words, images, videos, and so on. It’s up to the audience, at this stage, to pay attention as much as it can, or ...
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When you go to the movies, just about every moment has music underneath. From the swelling strings that tell you something inspiring is about to happen, to the subtle bass that tightens your stomach before the twist, music amps up your emotions before your brain even catches up. But when you go to a conference, ...
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Want to remember new words—or new ideas—faster and more completely? Your hands are the key to memory. A study published in Current Biology (Mayer et al., 2015) found that people who used gestures while learning a new language remembered vocabulary far better than those who only listened or watched. The researchers taught participants a made-up ...
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A new theory of mind, proposed by Professor Andrew Budson and his colleagues in 2022, further articulates what the neuroscience has been telling us for some time, and what I have been proposing in this blog for almost as long – and yields a surprising insight for anyone who wants to speak powerfully in public. ...
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