This is what I have been trying to avoid all my life… Everyone and their brother says that connecting with people is the area of life where you have the most pleasure and happiness, and the most discord, and unhappiness. Given my childhood, I am afraid of people, I am afraid of pain, and I […]
Can’t see the forest for the trees? You probably don’t like math… What is astuteness?
Distinction vs examples One of the reasons you are not as astute in life is because you can’t see the forest for the trees. But why? Seeing patterns is a higher function of the brain, and needs to be developed and nurtured. I call this astuteness, or the using the astute capacity. Everyone’s brain is […]
The unspoken price of happiness
This article is not politically correct, and you’ll probably hate it… I am OK with that. I am even OK if you hate me… I’ve been up since midnight. Some nights even the most effective energy audio won’t help… I am OK now, but I’ll probably be tired during the day. Just before I got […]
It’s hard to be silently brilliant. Lots of thoughts occur when you open your mouth
It’s hard to be silently brilliant. Lots of thoughts occur when you open your mouth. This has been one of the principles I live by. Now, that finally the harmful effects of the milk protein wore off… and I am returning to being normal. So my Sunday Rants call was more productive than maybe ever. […]
The Matrix… one method of the Matrix is confusion…
As a mad scientist, my job is to distinguish the “things” that are in your way of direction, in your way of clarity, and to devise ways for you to go around them or through them. One tool that has proven invaluable is isolation. Isolating what you want to see. Seeing it by itself. So […]
Love feedback or else… Make it a feedback loop…
The way to find the strait and narrow of happiness (See The Anna Karenina Principle) is to watch the feedback … and self-correct. Yesterday I added integrity to the starting point measurements. so far all people I measured ranked on 3 out of 100. Wow. I had an exchange of text messages with a guy, […]
Your life story is like a black hole. Your Bach Flower profile shows how…
Your tendency is to remember the story. Not what happened but your story. And to tell the story in a predictable manner… always the same way, always showing you in the same role, the same exact way. A story is a narrative of reality. It talks from one particular vantage point, and therefore it is […]
Guidance, oracle… the final interpretation is up to you
It’s Tuesday and Rob Brezsny’s syndicated horoscopes landed in my inbox. I read mine, and my blood turned cold. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the coming weeks, you might want to read the last few pages of a book before you decide to actually dive in and devour the whole thing. I also suggest you […]
What are you building with that?
What are you building with that? This question was my absolute favorite in Landmark Education’s Communication Course… I have tried to ask it of people outside of Landmark, and the answers I always got was puzzled silence. So, what am I asking here? Well, you are always building something. A more popular but less precise […]
What is dampening your energy so you cannot get from zero to one?
Preamble: society, to confuse you, makes the words ambition, desire, greed mean different things… and that is how society controls your mind. By sawing confusion… get clear. It takes energy to get anything done. Even to lose weight. Even to sleep… to sleep well. Getting that everything needs energy and that energy can get weakened, […]