Recording yourself is a good way to see how you speak, but you might be shocked to find that your voice when reading and your voice when speaking, unless you often read aloud, are rather different.

Try reading speeches while pronouncing them as though speaking to someone you know.

Read aloud, too. It helps. And try create videos for something like YouTube. It will give you the nerves of a live speech to work with.

Work, also, on speaking slowly and clearly and on creating a set rhythm, as speech is naturally like music.

Practice breathing right.

Public and interpersonal speech benefits greatly from practicing speech and hearing your own voice. It will lead to natural improvements just by you hearing yourself enunciate your points.

A consultation can take many paths, most would waste time and eventually lead a client to be upset with you for the time, and — often — money, they wasted by being allowed to speak without boundaries.

When interviewing a client, it is vital to know when to listen and when to prod and even subtly interrupt. People are good at conversation, but will focus naturally on what is most emotionally potent to them, when a professional probably wants colder webs of fact and motive.

You need to know what you have to extract from an interview. A written plan you have before you, perhaps a checklist — one you need to fill in, can help.

You may seem slightly colder to the client, but they will be happy with a lack of delays, and when you don't miss anything vital. They will also be more likely to be factual, not emotional. You can always work together as conversation partners, on the vital task of helping them tell the story in a way you can use to help them. A client giving a guided oral summary will be able to place their facts and factors in the right place much better than you can, when you actually have to draft anything based on them, later.

I type out extensive notes in all my consultations and find this is actually a good interview tool. If a client speaks too fast, you feel the need to slow them down, so you can record their words. When your words are being written down, you also feel you are being heard and economise more.

An added benefit of writing down what your client says, and having a game plan beforehand of what you need to know of the what, who, where, why, and how of each aspect of a matter, is that you will find yourself naturally steering a consultation.

It is usually also a good idea to book more time than you need for a consultation, I tend to book double — as it avoids 5 consults where one would do, by not cutting off a client who has finally got into the flow of things. Usually, the allocated time is enough. You also can benefit from holding o..

Legal experience is either a baptism of flames or it isn't.

Their lifeless form sank below the waters of the North Atlantic or they flew safely back. Data spoke a secret we still hold fast to, today. Pilots who survived past a timed point of a first combat mission in war, often made it through many more. Experience, a short time under fire, taught what was needed. Modern armies simulate its effect. You can, too.

Find problems, whether those of friends and family — they will have very similar 'quick questions' to one another, or via newspapers or the Internet. Stop your assumptions and hold your tongue, while researching what all the mechanics of what a question and real answers really are. Keep that method in answering questions at work.

A good understanding not just of English but of systems and of the real world are very important in legal practice and in interpreting any sort of legal clause, whether in statute or in a contract.

The consequences of putting on blinders when you're reading something or of not considering that there might be a different interpretation to it can be horrendous at times and can cost you dearly.

Always be aware, not just of the wording of something, but of what the reasonable interpretation of it might be.

No matter where you live, war in Europe is guaranteed to hurt you and your interests, not just those of us who live in Europe and the West. Attacking people for supporting Ukraine, or else even taking the side of Russia, is cutting off your nose to spite your face, wherever you live. Support Ukraine.

It is often posited in media that the West is in trouble due to the state of its universities and that major rival China will outpace the West due to its own advances in higher education. The West, we are told, teaches nonsense to students, while China teaches practical skill. Western universities do of course teach much which can be classed as impractical or even as nonsense, but this does not mean the West will fall behind its rivals.

Fractional reserve banking, and leverage based paper loans where the cash doesn't have to exist.

From Evergrande, to the ill maintained and now unprofitable high speed train network, to rising authoritarianism, not all is well in the Middle Kingdom, and that could hurt the global supply chain and your own pocket.

A sense of security, perhaps accompanying security theatre, can result in such risk taking that despite preventative precautions, danger still stands, but without an awareness of it.

South African Justice Minister Ronald Lamola has said that the country will pass legislation to expropriate land without compensation, after spending several years attempting to amend the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, in order to be able to pass legislation to expropriate land without compensation. The hitch in their plan is, the attempt to amend the constitution failed. They are still going ahead.

A different reading of the famous story in genesis, based on the Hebrew root word for the word translated as knowledge in the term: fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

An argument for a created universe.

The law of equity, not to be confused with the American ideological concept of equity, is a fascinating and necessary source of English law, one which looks at the truth on the ground, not just formal legal definitions of where parties stand in the common law.

What makes freedom so prolific, and quality of life so good in the west, at least comparatively speaking, when citizens of other less successful nations often have better standardized test scores, or more access to natural resources? And what does gratitude and a respect for the past have to do with this success?

Diversification of shares works on the premise that the stock market, because of the rules and regulations, with some effectiveness, weeding out the very financially unhealthy from public company and listed status, will generally, by the aid of the law of large numbers, as a whole, rise slightly, and bring diversified portfolios a slight return of perhaps the famous 10%.

However, there are cases where a diversified investment can lose a lot of money, such as where the fundamentals of a country's economy, or stock market, are bad. Is diversified investment in Zimbabwe or Venezuela or China a good bet? Probably not? What about stock market bubbles, say one created by the simple advice of 'diversify and you can't lose money, but will make 10% a year'? Could it be time for investors to start to look at the fundamentals of companies they invest in, such as their financial statements and market forces, instead of blindly betting on diversification in stock markets which are increasingly reaching record prices, prices which are often well in excess of companies' annual earnings and dividends?

South Africa's economy is an example of the effects of price's law amidst decades of capital and skills flight. (The riots referred to are 2021 riots. The Irish embassy in South Africa is the embassy referred to with reference to passports.)

The great Western defeat of 2021, Joe Biden's Saigon, and a great human tragedy unfolded over recent weeks with Afghanistan.

Of the recent riots in South Africa, and the multiple factors which could have made them more likely to have occurred.