Executives and professionals in nearly every industry are called upon to make presentations at some point in time. There are also numerous other occasions to make public presentations, whether it’s at a school board meeting, in your church, or some other setting. Unfortunately, many people don’t feel confident in their public speaking skills. What’s worse, […]
Tag: how to improve your memory
It’s More Than Names and Faces: Why a Good Memory is a Great Career Asset
When people think about the way their memory affects their career, the first thing that usually comes to mind is remembering names and faces. After all, who hasn’t had the feeling of dread that comes with meeting an important client, key executive, or new coworker and finding that you’ve forgotten their name just a few […]
A Birdcage with Underwear….meet Avery Haines
In this video I share a memory system invented by a genius over 300 years ago. It is the most powerful system in the world today for memorizing numbers. It allows me, in my corporate demonstrations, to recall the populations and areas in square miles of every country on the planet, and also allows me […]
Why do we stand in front of an open refrigerator door?
How often have you walked halfway up a set of stairs just to stop and wonder why you’re going up them in the first place, or stood in front of an open refrigerator door looking at its contents trying to remember what you wanted to snack on? Have you found that by retracing your steps […]
Homing Pigeon carrying a Shy Ant
If you happened to click on this article and are interested in memorizing the previous forty-five capitals you will find them archived on this web page. So here is my tenth and final post on memorizing the US state capitals. Again, please take a moment to read the April 2011 post regarding how our memory […]
Eating a hairy burger with a pencil! Oklahoma to S. Carolina
If you happened to click on this article and are interested in memorizing the previous thirty five capitals you will find them archived on this web page. So here is my eighth post on memorizing the US state capitals. Again, please take a moment to read the April post regarding how our memory tends to […]
Dakota Fanning sailing the Bismarck. New Mexico to Ohio
Here is the seventh post on memorizing the US state capitals. The first thirty capitals, Alabama to New Jersey, you can find under my May, June and July posts. Again, please take a moment to read the April post regarding how our memory tends to cling to the absurd and make sure you are reviewing […]
A Hamster flying the Concorde! Montana to New Jersey.
Here is the sixth post on memorizing the US state capitals. The first twenty five capitals, Alabama to Missouri, you can find under my May and June posts. Again, please take a moment to read the April post regarding how our memory tends to cling to the absurd and make sure you are reviewing the […]
Massachusetts to Missouri memorizing US State Capitals
Here is the fifth post on memorizing the US state capitals. The first twenty capitals, Alabama to Maryland, you can find under my May and June posts. Again, please take a moment to read the April post regarding how our memory tends to cling to the absurd and make sure you are reviewing the crazy […]
Sarah Palin, a Red Bull and Casper the friendly ghost.
OK I know it’s a worn out cliché that most people rank the fear of public speaking as their #1 fear above even death. To paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, at a funeral, most people would rather be lying in the casket than giving the eulogy. Well for most people the fear is real and it comes […]
