Lance Armstrong confession on Oprah.

"One Big Lie."

Lance Armstrong confession to Oprah was one of the top news for the year of 2013. Lance Armstrong admits that he have used drugs, during all seven times of his Tour de France.

While Oprah interviewing him, he looked really nervous. He only had the option to answer Oprah’s question with a yes or a no. Confessing in front of the world is a really hard job to do. Because you are throwing away all the happiness, goals and achievement that you assembled, and this is what exactly is happening to Lance. He is now found guilty.

I am glad that he came out honestly, and shared his biggest secret that he has been hiding it for years. Some people are disappointed in him, and some people are not. Lance Armstrong led a very successful campaign about live strong foundation. He made individuals believe in themselves. He changed people’s lives. But now, after I found out that he was using dope during the Tour de France, I am not supporting him any more  Because many other people worked really hard to win this tour, and he was cheating for years. Lance Armstrong should not get any credit for live strong campaign, but should live in the shadows of guiltiness for the rest of his life.   

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

"Stay hungry. Stay foolish." 

















Steve Jobs wrote and delivered a very good speech. He had a very classic structure and a strong opening speech. His speech was sectioned into three parts which are connecting the dots, love and loss, and death. These three parts stands for birth, death, and rebirth. The structure of the speech was formal and simple. He had valuable pauses before and mainly after key points to give the audience time to understand his sentences, to applause or to laugh as an example of the joke he did about not graduating from college. The weakness that I found in his speech was that he had a couple funny joked that he did not put a smile for and where the audiences were laughing at.
Steve Jobs gave one of the best advices just to the graduates and not for anyone else. He explained that to live a life fully was to attempt for greatness and believing.
If I would be a member of the Stanford 2005 graduating class, I would be very inspired from his words because he figured out how to live and believe in life, and how to succeed and achieve something that you really want.

Non-verbal Communications

"Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it." 









Amy Cuddy summarizes information about non-verbal communication and how body language affects how others see us. Her research on body language reveals that we can change other people's perceptions.
I agree with what she is saying but she is not talking about doing it for others, she is talking about doing it for yourself. This was my issue about her is that she is there on stage talking about her own problems rather than giving us advices. What I have learned from this video is that if you feel powerful, you become more confident, and you become happier because you are being who you really are.
In my opinion, the power of non-verbal communication are the sources of communication. As an example when we understand other's people thoughts we know how other people really feel. Every move in our body language can be judged.
Amy Cuddy ideas about how to cheat sheet to hidden thoughts is very logical. As an example for happy gestures are open palms, smile, enhanced eye contact, etc..., and for sad gestures are folded arms, hand holding up the chin, constant eye moving, etc.
In my opinion, why does non-verbal communication matters?
It is the way you look, move, listen and tell if the other person cares of what your saying, that if you are being truthful, and if that you are listening carefully about what he is saying.