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Book Review: “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” by Marshall Goldsmith
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Book Review: Poke the Box by Seth Godin
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Just as sounds string together to form words, words string together to form ideas.
If you learn a new word that contains an idea you never heard before, will you think thoughts that you’ve never pondered before?
There are words in other, non-English languages that contain complex ideas and are not easily translated into American English. My curiosity, and desire to know what words I was missing, drew me to, They Have a Word for It by Howard Rheingold.
Posted in Book Review, Public Speaking, tagged Book Review on October 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »
I joined a Toastmasters club in April 12′. Toastmasters is an organized forum for people to practice public speaking through the delivery of impromptu and prepared speeches.
Since I dove into Toastmasters at the beginning of this spring, I had been on the lookout for extra advice on growing my speaking ability, and “The Exceptional Presenter“ By Timothy J. Koegel provided me with just that.
Below are two quotes from the book that were especially impacting to me. I’ve bolded the sections that I highlighted when reading my hard copy.
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Samuel Seibert 