Nick Morgan's Blog, page 17
March 7, 2023
E48 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick talks to Book Writing Coach Robin Colucci.
Robin Colucci helps world-class experts write world changing books. Her clients have been published by “Big 5” and other top publishing houses and others have self-published. Many have won awards, received outstanding book reviews, and/or become bestsellers on Amazon, USA Today, and The New York Times bestsellers lists. Clients come to her for ...
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February 28, 2023
The Real Purpose of Eye Contact
Among the many common misunderstandings about body language is a very basic one: the real purpose of eye contact. We humans, especially in the West, are obsessed with eye contact. Getting it right is considered essential to good working and personal relationships. People who fail in this draconian test are considered problematic. They get called ...
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February 21, 2023
Why One Conversation a Day Is Essential for Us Humans
With a hat tip, or maybe a dedication would be a better word, to my dear friend Riaz Meghji. I have often written about our human need to communicate with each other, face to face, which allows us to share emotions through our mirror neurons and unconscious minds. It’s a particularly important concept to grasp ...
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February 14, 2023
Are there any reliable body language ‘tells’?
There’s a lot of misinformation about body language sloshing around in the information ocean that is the Internet. Perhaps the most fundamental wrong-headed idea is that you can reliably read the body language of strangers simply by knowing a few universal ‘tells’. Wouldn’t it be nice if that were the case? Then we could join ...
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February 10, 2023
E48 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick talks to fellow non-fiction writing coach and author Anne Janzer
Anne Janzer is a non-fiction coach and the author of The Writer’s Process, Writing to Be Understood. You can find her here: https://annejanzer.com/.
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February 7, 2023
Anxiety and the Zen of Public Speaking
This is my third and final piece of this series on the anxiety of public speaking. Adrenaline can cause speakers to do odd things. It can cause a kind of tunnel vision, where the speaker gets fixated on an idea, or uses the same word or phrase over and over again or gets lost down ...
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February 2, 2023
How to Reduce the Anxiety of Public Speaking
The most common question I get asked about public speaking is, “how do I control (reduce, eliminate) my nerves?” As soon as someone learns that I coach speakers and executives, that’s what they ask. And that’s no surprise; fear of public speaking is near-universal. Now, for most people, it’s a relatively mild form of anxiety ...
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January 27, 2023
E47 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick talks to MIT Instructor – Author and Keynote speaker Mark Herschberg
Mark Herschberg is a long-time MIT instructor, author of The Career Toolkit, speaker, and CTO of the startup - we talk about on the show, Brainbumpapp.com.
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January 24, 2023
Is Stress Bad for Speakers?
Is stress bad for humans? The popular view is that stress is bad, but the neurological research shows a more nuanced view. Low to moderate levels of stress are good for improving memory, attention, task-switching abilities, and psychological health overall. High levels of stress are bad for us in all the ways we hear about ...
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January 17, 2023
Why Do We Deny the Facts? And What Can We Do About That?
If you ask most people, they will tell you that human cooperation, from politics to simple daily interactions in the street, has gotten worse in the past 60 years. We blame the rise on various trends, like more social media, more extreme partisanship, the loss of trust, the increase in crime, the decline in civic ...
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