Author name: Jon Torrens

For the last few months my laptop has been excruciatingly slow. However, I’ve just made the whole experience of using it a joy of slippery smooth speediness by deleting a load of files, uninstalling programs and generally stripping away all the unnecessary stuff that’s accumulated over the past year. You can apply the same approach to any […]

The Joker can beat Batman. How can this be? Batman has intelligence, ruthlessness, physical training and gadgets. The Joker has no gadgets or physical training, but in most of the stories is Batman’s equal. I think it’s because he has something over Mr. Wayne, and that’s the wonderful villain’s quality of: Unpredictability. If I’m listening to a story,

You want to be fearless. You want to step out onto that stage with absolute confidence (that’s the word I meant). So what’s the one way to gain true confidence for public speaking and presentations? Well, here’s the bad news:There isn’t one, quick, simple thing that will allow you to reach that goal.(See Seth Godin’s

According to BBC news this week, the US Box Office did very well this Summer, with superhero movies such as Man of Steel and Iron Man 3 at the top. These movies always have a good villain. It’s well known that Hollywood loves an English actor for a villain, whether it’s Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Star Trek: Into

One or two of the people who contact me wanting to improve their speaking skills have a problem committing to actual training. Their reluctance is understandable; confronting any fear can be hard. But you know that feeling when, as a teenager, late at night, you decided to do something just for the sake of it,