The Winning Voice

Recently, I read the ‘Energy is 70% of a job – if you don’t have it, be nice’ quote in a book I picked up in a bookstore. Maybe upon reading it, you laughed as I did.

This week the ABC’s Kerry O’Brien interviewed Barack Obama. What strikes one about Obama is his sheer consistency of high performance listening and speech communication.

Your voice sounds different on audio-tape (or when you listen to your voice mail greeting et al) for the following reasons: When you speak, you hear your voice through two channels – [...]

A reporter once asked Thelonious Monk, the late jazz pianist, to explain why he could make such a unique sound on the piano.  Monk pointed to the piano and said something to the effect; [...]