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Practice, spontaneity, and happenstance
August 19, 2016Writing the past few weeks about Martin Luther King and Winston Churchill caused me to think of something one...
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The making of a speaker
August 11, 2016In the last post, I wrote that true masters of rhetoric and public speaking—every one that I have either...
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Spontaneity in public speaking
August 4, 2016Last time, I closed the post with an appeal for more unscripted speeches, and for increased spontaneity in public discourse....
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A hiring lesson from American football
January 30, 2015This week has been an unusual one. I have been in the US for over two weeks now, to...
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Life lessons from the theatre
July 10, 2014In the last post, I said that I would write a something here about how I have come to...
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Following my curiosity
June 19, 2014Steve Jobs’ story about his Reed College calligraphy class and “connecting the dots” got me thinking about whether I...
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How to find your passion
June 12, 2014This week, a friend sent me an article about why “follow your passion” is bad advice. The article cites...
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In response to FT Article :“Genius explained, with help from Mozart”
December 10, 2012In the December 6th edition of the Financial Times, I came upon an article by columnist Lucy Kellaway entitled,...
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Deliberate practice, continued
October 29, 2012In the previous entry, we discussed the importance of the mentor or coach in the concept of deliberate practice....
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How deliberate practice works
October 12, 2012Before writing last week about my excursion to Northern California with the group from Portugal, I had spent two...