Imagine someone who is struggling with anxiety. Chances are, the person that popped up in your head probably looks a bit crazy and unkempt. They may be frazzled, jittery, and uneasy because most of us think that this is what living with anxiety looks like. But actually, there are some people who go on to be successful and accomplish great things in spite of their battle against this mental illness.
September 19, 2021
Tap into the power to persuade by using these 6 techniques of clear and compelling speech
Monica Garwood 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 Simon Lancaster. This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from someone in the TED community; browse through all the posts here. There is
September 19, 2021
The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain
I am staring at a photograph of myself that shows me 20 years older than I am now. I have not stepped into the twilight zone. Rather, I am trying to rid myself of some measure of my present bias, which is the tendency people have, when considering a trade-off between two future moments, to more heavily weight the one closer to the present. A great many academic studies have