Retrogasm Install Theme©Install Theme© 7 Hand Gestures That Make You Look Like a Real Intellectual You’ve definitely seen it at some point. Maybe it was in a lecture in college. Maybe it was in a TED talk you watched recently. Alice May Williams and Jasmine Johnson observed “the full complement” of these gestures in the process of earning their MFA at Goldsmiths College in London. Throughout their courses, Williams and Johnson saw the gestures repeated so frequently that “it became hard not to notice them spreading from academics to students and back again,” they explain–a sort of vicious cycle of performative thinking. Click to Open Overlay Gallery Their virtual manual includes nine gestures in all. On the more advanced end, you have something like “The Shelf Sweep,” a two handed maneuver that involves pushing aside the contents of an imaginary bookcase and then quickly sweeping aside the contents of the shelf below it in an opposite direction. After a measure of viral success, Williams and Johnson brought their materials into the real world. Go Back to Top.
18 Tips And Tricks About Reading People Signals Specialist Karin Sigloch Probes the Planet’s Darkest Secrets Sixty-five million years ago, in the waning days of the dinosaurs, when India was still floating alone near Madagascar, an upwelling of hot rock from deep in the Earth’s mantle called a plume broke through the continent, depositing a 2-kilometer-thick blanket of volcanic material that can still be seen today. Then India migrated northeastward, eventually slamming into Eurasia. But the plume stayed put. And as the Indian and African plates passed over it, it spawned a chain of volcanic islands that now decorate the floor of the Indian Ocean. Today, that plume sits under Réunion, a French island located east of Madagascar. That’s the hypothesis anyway. Her career may seem an unusual choice for an engineering major. Sigloch, who grew up in Germany, wasn’t always into earth science. Although AT&T’s spin-off company Lucent Technologies now owned the labs, the place retained much of its freewheeling, collegial culture. The picture she and her colleagues produced was game-changing.
goal Julian Treasure: How to speak so that people want to listen Have you ever felt like you're talking, but nobody is listening? Here's Julian Treasure to help. In this useful talk, the sound expert demonstrates the how-to's of powerful speaking -- from some handy vocal exercises to tips on how to speak with empathy. This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page. Julian Treasure Mango (2017) Explore The Sound Agency's work worldwide. sign up Get Julian's free five-part video training on listening skills Have you ever felt like you're talking, but nobody is listening? This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page. Julian Treasure Mango (2017) Explore The Sound Agency's work worldwide. sign up Get Julian's free five-part video training on listening skills
The Wrong Body Language Never look away from your audience. In the outside world you may multitask and look at your Blackberry while ordering a latte, but never lose eye contact with those who have come to hear you speak. Eye contact helps you connect to people and enhance feelings of trustworthiness and likeability. Fidgeting with your hands is distracting. Don’t clap, knuckle crunch, or cuticle pick. Unless you are pointing to something in your presentation or making a big movement, keep your hands by your side. When you use your arms, gesture from the shoulder—not your elbow—to avoid looking like you are doing the chicken dance. You should be neat and organized. “Nobody wants to look at your behind,” says Rosenthal, CEO of Communispond in East Hampton, NY. Do your best to avoid “filler" words. Run through a preview “performance” so you know you have the right amount of material to make the best use of your allotted time, and you’re not forced to rush to squeeze in important points. Smile.
An experiment that tested a man's tolerance for isolation to the limit I served on US Navy submarines, and although not really isolated from people, we were essentially cut off from society. Sometimes it was difficult to adjust to it again, especially when it was 2+ months at sea, most of that underwater. Did you feel a kind of sensory overload after coming back to regular life? It seems like there would suddenly be a lot of input after months of a relatively quiet existence. Then again, my submarine knowledge comes from The Hunt for Red October, so life on a sub might be more stimulating than I'm giving it credit for. Yes, but not in the way you expect. You are busy and stimulated, just with work, after all you can't make too many mistakes a few hundred feet below the surface so you need to keep your game face on.
miscelaneous oddities The best advice for public speaking and presentations This article was taken from the October 2015 issue of WIRED magazine. Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. Whether it's getting up in front of an audience of 1,000 guests or ten overworked employees, public speaking can be unnerving. Michael Weitz and Abigail Tenembaum, founders of Virtuozo, coach everyone from TED speakers to CEOs to express their message effectively. "It's like a musical instrument, everybody can learn with enough practice," says Tenembaum. Understand your message "One thing that is critical is knowing your key message," says Tenembaum. Connect with your audience Look at them, don't stare, but speak directly to them and check they are staying engaged. Have a conversation Don't think about your words. Keep it clear Words should not get in the way of your message. Don't be afraid to pause If you have a sudden memory lapse, don't panic. Move for a reason
Body Atlas Reveals Where We Feel Happiness and Shame Yellow shows regions of increased sensation while blue areas represent decreased feeling in these composite images. Image courtesy of Lauri Nummenmaa, Enrico Glerean, Riitta Hari, and Jari Hietanen. Chests puffing up with pride — and happiness felt head to toe — are sensations as real as they are universal. And now we can make an atlas of them. Researchers have long known that emotions are connected to a range of physiological changes, from nervous job candidates’ sweaty palms to the racing pulse that results from hearing a strange noise at night. Once More With Feeling More than 700 participants in Finland, Sweden and Taiwan participated in experiments aimed at mapping their bodily sensations in connection with specific emotions. Researchers found statistically discrete areas for each emotion tested, such as happiness, contempt and love, that were consistent regardless of respondents’ nationality. Hot-Headed The findings enhance researchers’ understanding of how we process emotions.
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