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  1. Jul 8, 2010 · Open Letter to LeBron James. For four years, Dan Gilberts letter written after LeBron’s decision to sign with Miami has been on the Cavaliers website. It was removed today. The original...

  2. Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong — a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness.

    • Enthusiasm
    • Humour
    • Rhetorical Devices
    • Concreteness
    • Callback

    Dan Gilbert has great enthusiasm for his subject. You hear it in his voice; you see it in the way he moves and gestures. That enthusiasm draws you in and keeps you interested in the subject. As John Wesley said, “Catch fire with enthusiasm and people will come from miles around to watch you burn.”

    Gilbert shows that humour has its place even in a scientific or technical presentation. It lightens the mood, keeps the energy high and improves the attention and engagement of the audience. A few examples: 1. “When you have 21 minutes to speak, two million years seems like a really long time. But evolutionarily, two million years is nothing.” (0:1...

    A metaphoris a rhetorical device that compares two things (that are often not alike) by stating that one is the other. At 1:06 Gilbert uses a flight simulator as an excellent metaphor to explain the pre-frontal cortex (our “experience simulator”). Metaphors are simple but powerful ways to explain something new to your audience. You link your idea t...

    Dan Gilbert uses concrete examples to explain his points. I particularly appreciated the detailed way in which he described the experiment with the Monet paintings (9:34), the experiment with the photography course (15:30) and the stories of the three men from the newspapers (Jim Wright, Moreese Bickham and Harry Langerman). Being concreteby, among...

    At 9:15, Gilbert makes a reference to the talk by Buddhist Monk Matthieu Ricardwho also spoke at the same event. It is a very subtle thing, but it shows good presence of mind on the part of Gilbert. If you speak at an event and can reference a previous speaker, it’s a nice callback for the audience and shows that you are paying attention to others,...

  3. tough. The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for them. My emotions were more mixed. It was easy to say, “OK, I don’t want to deal with these people ever again.” But then you think about the other side. What if I were a kid who looked up to an athlete, and that

  4. Apr 11, 2014 · Dan Gilbert gave his first TED Talk in February 2004; The surprising science of happiness was one of the first we ever published, in September 2006. Here, the Harvard psychologist reminisces about the impact of TED, shares some suggestions of useful further reading — and owns up to some mistakes.

  5. Jul 7, 2018 · Dan Gilbert is the billionaire owner of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and the founder of Quicken Loans, the largest mortgage lender in the United States.

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  7. Jun 29, 2018 · Here's The Letter Dan Gilbert Wrote Cavaliers Fans After LeBron James Opted Out In 2010. Matt Lombardi. Jun 29, 2018 6:43 PM EDT. Friday, Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James became a free...

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