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When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations — and that most of us don’t converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy […]
Beau Lotto’s color games puzzle our vision, but they also spotlight what we can’t normally see: how our brain works. This fun, first-hand look at our own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints our perception of what’s really out there. “Let there be perception,” was evolution’s proclamation, and so it was that all […]
The role of Rhetoric in everyday advocacy The Ancient Greek poet Sappho wrote of it, “Persuasion is Aphrodite’s daughter, it is she who beguiles our mortal hearts.” Plato described it as “an influencing of the mind by means of words.” Homer said of it, “Do I know what ‘rhetorical’ means?” (That’s Springfield’s great thinker, Homer […]
Gravitas – having presence ‘Peter Capaldi will be a Dr Who of gravitas and steel’ says the New Statesman on the time lord’s latest incarnation. Undoubtedly, but what does that actually mean – ‘gravitas and steel?’ Are the two qualities everlastingly linked? Is gravitas something a lucky few are born with or can anyone have […]
You’re not at your best when you’re stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin thinks there’s a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations, when your thinking […]
Click here to read an article by Luan de Burgh which appeared in The Guardian.