Talking more can actually make people respect you less. Alison Wood Brooks explains that people often think speaking more makes them look smarter or more confident, but the opposite is usually true. When you are not the expert in the conversation and you keep fighting for airtime, people begin to see you as less powerful. Do you think people talk too much in conversations today? #podcast #communication #bodylanguage #anxiety

Father of modern philosophy. René Descartes was a 17th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist often called the “Father of Modern Philosophy.” He believed that true knowledge had to be built on clear, rational thinking rather than tradition or assumptions. His most famous idea is “Cogito, ergo sum” — “I think, therefore I am” — which means that the act of thinking proves your own existence. Descartes also made huge contributions to mathematics by creating analytic geometry, whic

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