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5 Ways to Project Confidence in Front of an Audience

Harvard Business Review

Replace long words with short ones. Long, convoluted sentences and jargon don’t make you sound smart at all — just the opposite. Stevenson’s TED talk is 190-words a minute — slightly faster than an audiobook, but not as fast as a rapid-fire motivational speaker who might clock in at 220 words a minute.

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Ethical Consumerism Isn’t Dead, It Just Needs Better Marketing

Harvard Business Review

As Daniel Kahneman’s explains in his wonderful book, Thinking Fast and Slow , a survey of all of his (Nobel-prize winning) research over the last forty years or so: “it is self-evident that people are neither fully rational nor completely selfish, and that their tastes are anything but stable.” being skinny).

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