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There is something that touches the emotions about the Nike Mayfly, a £25 ultra-lightweight, professional running shoe designed to last just 100km. Is it the sad beauty of brevity? Is it the sense of concentrated purpose? Is it the highlighted feeling of time passing? Is it the fun of destroying something slowly through running? (I [...]
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I was going to write about humor this week but that will have to wait. I spent Friday at The Story, and quite a few people I met there wanted to talk about what I had written last week about smiling and some valuable points were raised that I thought I should share. The general [...]
Continue Reading →Networking gurus will often say that when you approach a group of people you should smile. This is terrible advice unless you are a naturally smiley person, in which case you obviously shouldn’t suppress your nature by hiding your smile. For the rest of us, putting on a smile can be a very good way [...]
Continue Reading →In the first Monkey Shouting I raised the question of who you should approach first at a party. The answer is not a simple one and not everyone would agree on the right approach. But here are a few things to consider. The feeling of having fun, chatting to people, and being entertaining is not [...]
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I have to admit that I have selfish reasons for being glad that the book Sleights of Mind by Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde is such a well written and researched piece of work. It makes me foolishly happy to know that there are others out there who are excited by what we can learn [...]
Continue Reading →This is the first in a series of posts sharing tips for dealing with networking at industry events that I’ve taught over the years. These are ideas that anyone can use to make work events less daunting and more fun. Some are tips that professional performers have passed down over the years, others I’ve discovered through experience. I hope you find some of them useful.
Continue Reading →I’m reading the work of Robert Kurzban, an Associate Professor of Psychology who has written about hypocrisy. He argues that we are capable of believing contradictory things because we are like iPhones. Our brains are made of lots of specialized “Apps” that are good at doing one thing really well. Its perfectly possible for the [...]
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