In A Modest Book About How to Make an Adequate Speech, writer and performer John-Paul Flintoff suggests that we “invent” what we want to say by asking six key questions:

1. Who are we talking to...

The less important something is, the more time is spent on it.

When a topic is simple and easy to grasp, like a bike shed, we will tend to have an opinion on it and thus more to say.

Even if we don't, we'll still say something so that:

• We don't look stupid in front of o...

Jean-Paul Sartre was born in 1905 in Paris, France and is considered to be one of the main popularizers of existential thinking. For Existentialists, life has no fundamental meaning or truth beyond what is created by our decisions and actions within it. 

The core of Existential thought is t...