Add personality to a public speech by emphasizing vocal inflections.

Avoid speaking in a monotone voice with tips from a communications specialist in this video.

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Hello! Do you apologize too much?

This is a habit a lot of people have, and that Zoe used to suffer from.

In this video, she gets to the root of the problem, and why it’s so harmful to your relationships.

She also teaches you the (ingenious!) solution —

and thereby how to improve your relationship to yourself and others!

Plus, she’ll make you laugh out loud from the silliness

 

Plato hated it, the Bible discouraged it and psychologists once thought it would drive you insane. When Albert realises hes forgotten how to laugh, he embarks upon a global investigation into this mysterious physical phenomenon, spanning neuroscientists, holy laughter groups and the man with the most contagious laugh in the world.

Dan Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, speaks with Fast Company on how to avoid “that dreaded bullet-drenched PowerPoint that everybody hates”.


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Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.

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