Over the past few weeks, I've been watching a TED talk by Dan Ariely. The talk is very effective, and I'm posting it below. He makes some interesting points about recognition and motivation, and although some of the insights shouldn't be new to us, the experiments he describes give vivid proof that demotivating people is very, very easy.
Dan Ariely is an Israeli American, and he's a professor at Duke University. If you watch his TED talk, you may notice that his English is imperfect. I think you'll also feel that his presentation is effective.
My message to you is that when you need to speak to people in English (or an any language that isn't native for you), the most important thing is to connect with people and communicate from the heart, with conviction. Don't worry about being perfect. It's hard communicate very much if you're too focused on perfection!
It seems that there's a problem with embedding the video, so here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aH2Ppjpcho
Dan Ariely is an Israeli American, and he's a professor at Duke University. If you watch his TED talk, you may notice that his English is imperfect. I think you'll also feel that his presentation is effective.
My message to you is that when you need to speak to people in English (or an any language that isn't native for you), the most important thing is to connect with people and communicate from the heart, with conviction. Don't worry about being perfect. It's hard communicate very much if you're too focused on perfection!
It seems that there's a problem with embedding the video, so here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aH2Ppjpcho
