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Socks, shoes, and identity stories
August 3, 2018The previous post ended with a somewhat obvious observation concerning a legendary anecdote about UCLA’s first day of basketball...
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Why the desire to prepare is key to learning any complex task
June 8, 2018My last post, about Bob Knight and the desire to prepare versus the desire to win, drew a number...
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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....