Voices
Voicing the Science of Voice and Influence
As soon as you speak, you will instantly be judged Your Voice & First Impressions
With first impressions, your voice is more important than you may realise. It takes less than 1 second for people to judge your personality. Yes, less than 1 second. That’s the time it takes to say the word “Hello”.
How the Voice of Emma González Saved me After the Florida Parkland shooting, I lost all hope… until I heard the silence of Emma González.
I felt numb. Yet another cruel shooting in my home country of America. In sunny Florida even. Yet another senseless slaughter of innocent children. And what followed was just as disgusting. Instant denial and deflection from spineless right-wing politicians. I'd lost...
3 Days of Complete Silence What lessons did I learn?
When I was a rowdy kid (yes, just ask my 4 brothers), my mother would (often) send me to my room. Being forced to sit alone was the punishment. Now imagine that I registered for a 3-day silent retreat where I’d be locked alone inside my head! I was not supposed to...
A Silent Retreat: Who are you without your Voice?
Today I’m starting a 3-day Silent Retreat. No speaking, no phones, no books, no eye contact… Only silence and listening within.
Learn from the Speakers You Admire The world needs your voice
I just listened to an old speech by Martin Luther King Jr. from April 4th, 1967 at the Riverside Church in New York City. It wasn’t his most famous speech, but perhaps one of his most underrated. In this speech he changed his course and for the first time spoke out...
A Tolerance for Silence The people of Finland are just different...
Right now I am on an airplane. I’m flying home at 20,000 feet from Kuopio, Finland. I’m decompressing. Imagine a town dropped right in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Imagine being surrounded by a thousand miles of flat and nondescript landscape with nothing but...