The mouthfeel of words
“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first,” Ralph Waldo Emerson, American 19th century essayist Living in Switzerland, I’m lucky to have access to, in my opinion, the best chocolate in the world. Imagine, you’ve just taken a bite of your favourite, creamy chocolate. How does it taste? How does it feel in your […]
How to make your point fast
We now have a shorter attention span than a goldfish, so we haven’t got long to make our point! Our attention span is rapidly declining, twenty years ago we were happy to focus on something for 12 seconds but this dropped to eight seconds fifteen years later, no doubt with the advent of smartphones and the […]
The triumphs and pitfalls of Zoom
“I am here live, I am not a cat”, Rod Ponton, lawyer, Texas, USA The Covid-19 pandemic has without a doubt caused enormous devastation to millions of people around the world and the consequences are still unfolding. But it has also revolutionised at breakneck speed, before most of us were even ready, how we communicate […]