Leigh Anderson
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How To Handle An Angry Crowd
How can the average citizen prepare themselves for having to speak to a hostile audience? The best people to answer these questions, of course, are politicians and former politicians, so I got Michael Dukakis, the three-term former governor of Massachusetts and the 1988 US Democratic presidential nominee, on the phone.
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How To Beat Cabin Fever When You’re Stuck Inside This Winter
Winter has finally arrived: This morning in Melbourne, the temperature was 6°C. It’s cold! For some people, the first freezing winds of winter are doubly depressing — we’re closing in on the shortest day of the year (June 21), which means we’re not getting a good dose of sunlight and it’s too cold to go…
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How To Fight ‘Chill Girl’ Teen Culture
High school and university students are suffering from unprecedented levels of anxiety, and anyone raising teenagers these days knows they’re coping with huge amounts of stress. This goes double for girls, who have what Rachel Simmons calls “role overload” in her book Enough as She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of…
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How To Help Kids Concentrate In The Era Of Digital Distraction
When I was a child there weren’t many options for entertainment after school or on weekends: I could walk to a friend’s house. I could watch TV on our 13 fuzzy channels. Or I could read. And so I read, and read, and read — hours and even whole days would pass with no interruptions.…