How to Be Brave: The Return
I’ve had a few positive comments and dozens of hits on a blog I wrote in July called How to Be Brave. The gist of it was that it’s possible to overcome the feeling of fear by first of all acting as if you were not afraid. If you can put on a good enough act, then the feelings will fall into place afterwards. While teaching a course in non-verbal communication recently, a...
Read MoreBody to Body, Funk to Funky
So this week I’m resting frorm the rigours of teaching another public workshop at Queen’s University, Belfast. The subject? Body language. The title? Body to Body: How to Communicate Without Words. It’s the second time I’ve led this workshop at Queen’s. Both times it’s been the largest, most popular course I’ve ever taught. Both times, the...
Read MoreThe Most Powerful Prefix in the Universe!
Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me the day I held aloft my magic sword and said, “By the power of Meta!”. Or something like that. ‘Meta’ is such a simple prefix, but it did bestow a sort of power on me once I discovered it. It’s from a Greek word meaning ‘after’ or, better, ‘beyond’. It can also mean ‘about’. So...
Read MoreThe Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Everyone is spellbound by The Apprectice, where bear-like Alan Sugar puts some millionaire wannabes through their paces in order to select one fortunate finalist as his apprentice. Recently, the show focused on the candidates’ interview skills. A BBC article analysed Five job interview bear traps, the most painful any person can stumble into. Being caught in a lie – when...
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