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You’re on a shoot creating photographs. What goes through your mind to help you take interesting photos, rather than just run-of-the-mill photos? (Let’s assume technical competence and basic artistic ability are a given.) Take a second and make a mental list. If you wanted to take interesting and pause-worthy images, what would you do? And…
The stage lights shone so fiercely I couldn’t see the audience. Every now and again, I’d pace in front of the projector and get that bright PowerPointed beam straight in the eye, and I’d scuttle to the side like a wounded crab. But public speaking doesn’t bother me. At least it didn’t, until I reached…
“And I thought, look at Jenika’s website – she talks like a human.” Two weekends ago I perched atop a desk in a Yale dorm room, swinging my legs and chatting with a former college roommate. An amazing part of being at the reunion, aside from the piles of well-catered food (endless platters of brie? …
When people read about psychology, it often goes like this: They click on an article about something like, say, the halo effect. The halo effect is a mental bias we have, where our judgments of a person are clouded by one particular element. For example, a new student shows up in class wearing stained clothing,…