I’ve just finished the book How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer and it has information that should be of interest to trial lawyers. Here are some passages from the book. I’ve preached the importance of avoiding the spiral of nervousness leading to self study and then focusing only on ourself doing what we are doing instead ofthe communication you want to deliver. The result is a poor performance. Experience allows us to conduct ourselves without thinking about what we are…
I am in Madeira, Portugal out in the Atlantic ocean near Morocco, Africa so my postings will be brief and perhaps irregular until our return. I’ve also admired and benefited from Victor E. Frankel’s book Man’s search for Meaning. Here are some of rthe observations from this man who survived Jewish concentration camps where so many people were murdered. Why am I sharing these on a legal blog? Because I believe these are thoughts we trial lawyers can benefit and…
Stan Greenberg is a well know pollster who columnist Thomas L. Friedman recentlywrote about. He listed thekey lessons Greenberg learned from all his experience in working with politicans and presidents. So, what was theultimate lesson he learned about how presidents of the United States should act? Here it is: "You can’t be too honest in describing big problems, too bold in offering big solutions, too humble in dealing with big missteps, too forward in retelling your story or too gutsy…