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The other conclusion is what makes these superforecasters so good. It’s not really who they are. It is what they do. Foresight isn’t a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs.
Superforecasting
Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner
The bottom line is that people in the entertainment industry succeed only if they can titillate, tantalize, and excite your brain. They have to go beyond the ordinary to the extraordinary. They have to find the limits of the familiar and break them. They have to tickle the novelty-seeking centers the nucleus accumbens, the striatum, and the mossy fibers of the hippocampus-in your brain. Only if they achieve this do they succeed.
The Genius of the Beast
Howard Bloom
Engage Your Audience Beforehand Meet and greet your audience before your speech. I always make it a point to arrive early to the speaking venue to meet audience members either at the gate of the venue or by walking around the hall. In recent events I took this to a higher level. I started using subtle influencing techniques on the audience to shape their expectations about my speech. For example, after greeting the delegates sitting around the tables, I would tell them: “I have a feeling you will laugh a lot today. I can sense it right now. You like to have fun, right?” And their answer is almost guaranteed: “Of course! Who doesn’t?”
World Class Speaking in Action
Craig Valentine
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