Empathy: The Bridge to Common Ground

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? —Henry David Thoreau How can you recognize what never before has been considered? See what you don’t believe? Discover what you don’t even know to look for? Discern that...

Money and the Shame/Self-Esteem Axis

Of all human emotions, the most painful, the hardest to tolerate is shame. Shame is the feeling that there is something wrong with us, that we are not only inadequate, but basically flawed. Shame can assume different intensities from embarrassment to humiliation. When...

The Secret Playbook: 32 Paradoxes and 6 Antipodes

Paradoxes To require that others respond to you exactly as you want gives them control over you. To influence others to respond in the specific way that you want renders them inauthentic in your mind. Acceptance is not acquiescence. It is rare to see fully all that...

The Missing Money Manual: 28 Essential Maxims

The most popular legal substance to all people of the world: money. Money becomes the inkblot of our personal Rorschach. The more we give money meaning, the more we lose focus on what money means. Reasonable people forego pleasure to pursue money in order to purchase...

A Secret Ingredient for Writers

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld pins a calendar on a prominent wall in his apartment office that has the entire year on one page. On days when he writes new material, no matter how little, he draws a red “X” over that day. Ultimately a chain of crossed off days develops. His...