JULIAN TALBOT

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How To Achieve What You Are Gifted For

4 min

How To Achieve What You Are Gifted For

Marie Curie knew something about success. The first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, the first woman to win a Nobel prize, and the first person to win two Nobel prizes. That's an impressive track record in anyone's estimation. All the more amazing when you consider that as a woman in the 1890's, she couldn't even enroll in university in her native Poland; much less become a professor. It took years as a governess for her to save enough to follow her dre

Do positive affirmations actually work?

19 min

Do positive affirmations actually work?

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach Like many people, I grew up with parents who regularly gave me advice to "think positive". Whenever I was down, it seemed that I had to reprogram my mind with positive affirmations and suppress any negativity. My parents, in turn, were just following advice that goes back at least 100 years ago to when French psychologist Emile Coué introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement ba

How to write a job application letter that gets you to interview

10 min

How to write a job application letter that gets you to interview

"The only purpose of a job application letter is to get you an interview." There was a time when I sent out roughly 100 job application letters without even a single job interview. It was disheartening. I eventually worked out a 2-page template that landed 5 job interviews from 5 job application letters and that's what I'd like to share with you today. I've since stopped using that particular template because I've found better ways to win jobs than applying for them, but that

Secrets of Success

8 min

Secrets of Success

Would you like to know the one tip that could guarantee success? The ‘secret sauce’ or ‘silver bullet’? Of course, you would. And so would I, if it existed. The simple truth (at least my assessment after decades of research and achieving success in most areas of life) is that there are no secret recipes for success. No magic strategies, tactics or hidden arcane rituals. Just one simple principle has delivered and keeps delivering, success in my life and the lives of everyone

Non-Verbal Communication

12 min

Non-Verbal Communication

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson Every day, as managers, leaders, parents, friends and colleagues we consciously and unconsciously respond to, and transmit, countless nonverbal cues and behaviors, including postures, facial expression, pauses, proximity, touch tone of voice, eye gaze, obvious gestures, and micro-gestures. All of our nonverbal behaviors send strong messages and they don't stop when you stop speaking. Even when y