Learn How to Talk to People with Confidence featuring Expert Matt Abrahams
Do you feel nervous when you're asked to introduce yourself? Or do you have a moment of panic when you are forced to small talk with a stranger?
Today’s podcast episode with Matt Abrahams provides some quick ideas for feeling more comfortable and confident when speaking to others.
Matt is an innovative educator who teaches for Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He's also the author of the book Speaking Up Without Freaking Out, which helps people who ...
Is There an Art to People Watching? We Ask Psychologist and Best-Selling Author Sherry Turkle.
Are you a people watcher?
Do you spend half of your time in a coffee shop eyeing the other patrons out of the corner of your eye?
Sherry Turkle is a social researcher who calls herself "a bit of a Nancy Drew." She's been able to uncover many practical insights about how we relate to the people around us, including an important finding about where you keep your cell phone while hanging out with friends.
In this week's episode of Truth or Dare, Sherry shares what she's discovered ...
So You Want to Try Periscope? Here’s What You Need to Know.
The Periscope App
The Periscope App, which can be downloaded on your phone, is inspired by the "periscope" used by sailors to spy on the outside world from their submarine.
The app version of that lets you get a peek into someone else's life and world. For instance, you can use Periscope to step into my office and be part of a conversation as I sit on my purple couch. You can take a walk with someone as they exercise their German Shepherd in the pastures of the Netherlands. You can ride ...
Is Multi-Tasking a Way of Life? Professor Cal Newport Says It Doesn’t Have to Be.
Is Concentration a Lost Art?
You decide to take on a massive project.
It could be putting together an ambitious proposal for work or gathering up receipts and tackling That Spiral of Darkness that is taxes. Or, it could be a household task--like finally organizing that medieval dungeon we call a garage.
You mark off D-Day on your calendar and, when the day arrives, you sit down to show this task who is boss. For the first ten minutes, you're locked in. You're sorting, you're making ...
An Update: When Less Is More
Instead of writing a blog post for you, I'm hunched over the kitchen counter drawing icing eyes on a fruit shishkabob caterpillar.
Welcome to the this-writer-has-toddlers stage.
Today, I bring you a blog update from the top of the block tower however. Picture me at a lego podium surrounded by news crew mics, while toting a diaper clad toddler with smashed banana on his face. It's that kind of press release.
The things that shaped today's update go back more than 10 years...
In ...