9 Ways This Introvert Polished His Public Speaking Skills
Not all introverts suffer from public speaking anxiety. But if you do, here are some ideas to eliminate it and become a strong communicator.
Google’s Quest to Build a Better Boss (Published 2011)
A company study found that a manager’s technical skills were far less valued by employees than people skills.
We Need to Talk About Servant Leadership
Tastes great, less filling
How to Mentor a Perfectionist
It’s really hard.
Theories about attention
These are psychological theories about how we pay attention.
Why People Buy Perception And Not Reality
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” ~ Albert Einstein It was well past 5pm and we were still at the office debating about how we should inspire our customers. We were debating the strategy to ‘be like Mike‘ or to ‘be like Joe.’ To be like Mike, meant…
Lincoln on Leadership
Fight the Good Fight The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. Try Honey Before Vinegar If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. On the contrary … …
Why Rituals Work
There are real benefits to rituals, religious or otherwise
Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property
Cultural norms, complex religious influences and friendly police officers make losing something no big deal. But does this tell the whole story about Japan’s relationship with honesty?
The Top 10 Psychology Books You Should Read
Understand the world better with 35 concepts | Conceptually
Understand the world and make better decisions using concepts from psychology, philosophy, economics and other disciplines, delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday.
Pursuing the Psychological Building Blocks of Music - Behavioral Scientist
Humans are wired to produce and understand music, suggest researchers in an ambitious new study. Despite the evidence, not everyone is likely to be convinced.
Why Washing Machines Are Learning to Play the Harp
Appliance makers believe more and better chimes, alerts, and jingles make for happier customers. Are they right?
The Nine Primary Tactics Used to Influence Others
The Primary Tactics Used to Influence Others —The number one thing to understand about influence is that people make decisions for their reasons, not yours.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3016115/leadership-now/7-tough-leadership-lessons-from-a-navy-seal-commander
“Get them to say no”: Expert lessons in influence from the most persuasive professions on earth
The job of a good storyteller, marketer, or writer is to pull one over on you. To make you believe what they’re saying, no matter how farfetched it might be.
The generation effect
Do you feel like you can remember things better when you actively engage with the information and create your own version of it? That’s called the Generation Effect. In a research paper published in 1978 in the Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, scientists described…
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Biases and Blunders
If we really want to understand how we can nudge people into making better choices, it’s important to understand why they often make such poor ones.
Social Proof Is the Most Important Factor in Selling
If I had to choose a single factor that is crucial to an online store’s success, it would be social proof. The term is often misunderstood. It doesn’t
How To Pay Attention
20 Ways To Win The War Against Seeing
Habits, Obstacles, and Media Manipulation with Ryan Holiday
This week I chat with Ryan Holiday, an author and hacker, about habits, obstacles, and media manipulation.
Persuasion Triggers In Web Design — Smashing Magazine
How do you make decisions? If you're like most people, you'll probably answer that you pride yourself on weighing the pros and cons of a situation carefully and then make a decision based on logic. You know that other people have weak personalities and are easily swayed by their…
The Invention of Sliced Bread - Priceonomics
Sliced bread: the greatest thing since...sliced bread.
Brands Are Behaving Like Organized Religions
But should they?
A List Of 8 Core Values I Live By
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Our values matter not because of how we are perceived, but because of how they define our character and set us apart from all others.
The Elephant in the Brain — a new book by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
Why Do We Gesture When We Talk?
Gesture researchers have spent the past 40 years uncovering how movements (like a cupped hand rotating in space or a finger tracing a path through the air) are intimately tied to speech.
Understand the 4 Components of Influence
The subtle signals you have to master.
Why a Surprise Drop Can Be a Great Marketing Ploy for Brands
Hulu and Beyoncé have pioneered a new way to generate hype.
Book summary the 21 irrefutable laws of leadership by john maxwell part 1
Why too much evidence can be a bad thing
(Phys.org)—Under ancient Jewish law, if a suspect on trial was unanimously found guilty by all judges, then the suspect was acquitted. This reasoning sounds counterintuitive, but the legislators of ...
Principles-of-Adult-Behavior.md
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This Is How To Stop Checking Your Phone: 5 Secrets From Research - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
You want the good things technology brings. You also want to know how to stop checking your phone so much. Here's what a behavior expert says is the answer.
7 Persuasion Tips For More Influence and Better Engagement - The Secret Product Manager Handbook
Use these 7 persuasion tips to instantly make your presentations, roadmaps, marketing and sales materials more compelling, engaging, and influential.
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Ten Techniques To (Quickly) Build Trust With Anyone
Ten techniques for building quick trust and rapport with anyone from the FBI’s Counterintelligence training program.
A Dozen Lessons about Business from Anthony Bourdain
“The absolute certainty that nobody was going to care about, read or buy Kitchen Confidential was what allowed me to write it. I didn’t have to think about what people expected. I didn’t car…
How to Get an MBA from Eminem? - James Altucher
In 2002 I was driving to a hedge fund manager’s house to hopefully raise money from him. I was two hours late. This was pre-GPS and I had no cell phone. I was totally lost. If you’ve never driven around Connecticut you need to know one thing: all the roads are parallel and they…
The Psychology of the Self-Appointed Genius - Priceonomics
How ignorance and a little ego threat can make us ridiculously over-confident.
How to Respond to a Bullshit Apology
In the span of five days, Saturday Night Live hired and fired comedian Shane Gillis after his use of sexist, homophobic, racist language— including
Tap into the power to persuade by using these 6 techniques of clear and compelling speech
Politicians and other public figures deploy particular rhetorical devices to communicate their ideas and to convince people, and it’s time that we all learned how to use them, says speechwriter Sim…
The Science of Snobbery: How We're Duped Into Thinking Fancy Things Are Better
Wine snobs, string quartets, and the limits of intuition
How to Build a New Habit: This is Your Strategy Guide
Understanding how to build new habits is essential for making progress. Read this guide right now to learn 5 easy, powerful strategies for changing habits.
Medium
Every product organization starts with the intention of building the most important features desired by the most customers and to differentiate its offerings from the competition. Yet as …
Double Crux — A Strategy for Resolving Disagreement
(Cross posted to LessWrong)
The Key to Giving and Receiving Negative Feedback
It doesn’t have to be painful.
How to Persuade Anyone of Anything in Ten Seconds - James Altucher
You’re on the most important elevator ride of your life. You have ten seconds to pitch- the classic “elevator pitch”. Love or Hate. Money or Despair. And you may never get this chance again. As PM Dawn says, “I feel for you. I really do.” There are books about this. But don’t…
GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done
The Ultimate Guide to Conversion Rate Optimization
Follow this guide for everything you need to know about conversion rate optimization, how it works, and how to use it.