When I was studying theatre at Northwestern University, a man named Jay O’Callahan performed an evening of storytelling. I had never seen anything so wonderful in my life. I sat like a small child ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about jobs, careers, board service and the workplace. Tamsin Henderson is the creator of the #1 best-selling copy writing ...
About five years ago, I published a book called Magic Words. "A whole book?" some wondered. "Why can't you just give me a list?" Because the words aren't where the real magic lies. And yet, the media ...
Your editor has given me a list of names of authors whom he desires to be limned in this column. Some of them I have met. Some are strangers to me in the flesh ; but, willy nilly, I am determined to ...
Whether or not they involve genuine abstraction, words offer a way to reason and communicate — a respite from the tyranny of the specific, says... The philosopher George Berkeley famously argued ...
About five years ago, I published a book called Magic Words. "A whole book?" some wondered. "Why can't you just give me a list?" Because the words aren't where the real magic lies. And yet, the media ...
For as long as I can recall, I've loved reading. As time passed, I began to wonder: Where do words come from? Who made them up? Who dictated that a rectangular opening in a wall was to be called a ...
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