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Category: Psychology
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The Perfect Speech – Are emotions ugly?
I have a 9-year-old daughter who just finished primary school. The school decided to create some memories with the kids, and the graduation ceremony was a beautiful moment of parental pride. As usual, a student was chosen to read the speech, and it was a delight to watch such a young girl bravely speaking in…
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Speak Less, say more: how to deliver a message that sticks
There’s a common mistake even experienced speakers make: saying too much. It’s tempting—you’re passionate, you’re prepared, and you’ve got so much knowledge to share. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: the more you say, the less your audience remembers. So, what’s the point? People don’t retain everything. They retain what stands out, what’s repeated, what connects.…
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Empowerment Through Awareness: Confronting Self-Limiting Beliefs
Self-limiting beliefs is a concept that comes up particularly in the self help area with some frequency. It seems easy enough to understand, but for the hard things in life I’ve never heard or found a way to overcome them. Until just recently. I came to understand self-limiting beliefs differently and that opened the door…
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Gamifying fear as a way to start doing
Gamifying fear is an approach to help you to overcome fear and start participating in that activity. Assuming your feared activity isn’t deadly and you can find a way to approach it with safe baby steps, I a gamification based approach may help you start and keep working at it. Gamification can help remove a…
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How to Keep Your Authenticity While Adopting a Stage Persona
Many performers build a stage persona around themselves, but will it compromise your authenticity?
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Fear of Public Speaking: When Is It More Than Just Nerves?
The fear of public speaking is one of humanity’s most common anxieties. Whether addressing a small group of colleagues or standing before a large audience, the prospect of speaking in public can send shivers down our spine. Some research from the University of California, Los Angeles, reveals that this fear (often referred to as glossophobia)…
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Want to improve your public speaking? Improve your Emotional Intelligence
There was a time when scientists were way too focused on determining a numeric value to define our intelligence. With time, they realized that intelligence means a great number of different things, including our most emotional side. A high IQ doesn’t mean much if you can’t deal with your emotions. They are an essential point…
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Traumatic Memories: how do they impact your ability to shine?
When speaking in public, you feel incredibly vulnerable because you are too exposed. Many anthropologists have theories about that discomfort and its relationship with being apart from the group. In other words, far from the safety of the group. Yet, some of us seem to deal better with it, while others can reach the anxiety…
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The Power of Kindness: A Solution to Public Speaking Anxiety
We all, eventually, suffer from anxiety in at least one situation in our life. The answer? Be kind. Kindness has been shown to have an effect in decreasing your anxiety levels. Public speaking is the activity the majority of people fear the most, and it has high levels of stress and anxiety associated with it.…
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Why Negative Feelings Linger: The unwanted Power of Rumination
When you have an outstanding performance and everybody loves it, you feel delighted and can’t stop talking about it for weeks. On the other hand, when something goes terribly wrong, you’ll remember it for years. You’ll be in your old age and still remember that day you were terrible at doing something. Having acknowledged that…
