It’s understandable to have filler words in your speech when speaking in your second or third language. But when you speak in your first language and yet have a lot of filler words, people can assume you are not confide...

Unwanted things have a way of finding their way into our lives. Be it weeds in our garden, accidents on the road or simply filler words in our speeches. Just as you would uproot the weeds, or get an insurance to deal with accidents, you can also be pro active ...

We would all like to portray ourselves as confident public speakers, wouldn’t we? One who speaks with impact and gets the audience to act on the call to action. Sadly, filler words are a real dampener on this outcome. There is a world of difference ...

Do you feel like a genius when you discover a smart hack that saves you time or efforts? If you do, you will be happy to know that your brain does it all the times. In fact filler words ...

Imagine an alternate world where speakers were paid on the basis of number of words spoken just like content writers are paid on number of words written. In such a world, every contract would have one clause “filler words are ...

Have you noticed that every time the Ah counter presents their report, the prepared speakers have significantly less filler words than table topic speakers? That’s not a co incidence. We utter filler words when our brain needs time to process our next few words, something a prepared speaker wouldn’t need to. But a good public ...

Glues are not the only things that are sticky. Catchy music tends to remain stuck in our head for days. Some people are annoyingly sticky. And a couple of filler words such as like, ah, umm, you know, but etc. are stuck ...