America is shrinking. We’re officially in a recession — for the last year without officially knowing it until yesterday — and the influence of the USA abroad is waning and is in danger of completely failing. Is there really a bits worth of difference between “recession” and “depression” in the eye of the mind?
If you’ve ever appeared before a live audience — or if you’ve created something that was presented to a live audience for you — you are well aware of the symbiotic power between performer and audience and you have learned to immediately recognize the subtle clues an audience provides to tell you if they’re with you or not. Getting them with you is hard; keeping them with you is harder.
Is it an evolutionary necessity that all babies are born selfish and power-seeking?
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If you change the label of a concept, is the context forming the underlying concept changed as well — or is the concept always the same no matter the name?
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What is the nature of wealth, power and wisdom? I’d like to share some of my thoughts with you.
Why do so many people fear the truth?
People are frightened of honesty because truths are revealed. The danger in truth is that it wounds with indisputable facts. If you’re unprepared in life to deal with the reality surrounding you — it’s better to not know and to never ask.
Continue reading → Random Thoughts on Wealth, Power and Wisdom
You know you’ve hit the Big Time on the Internet when people start clinging to you by writing about you on their blogs, sending you email and talking about you on other people’s websites without your direct intervention or knowledge.
Sometimes your fans are kind.
Oftentimes your former sycophants are cruel.
You then take the good with the bad — the admiring with the obsessed — and find pleasure and peace in knowing they are all propagating the brand, creating a buzz and keeping your name and your presence out there in the world for everyone else to read and then discover the truth of you on their own; thus creating a whole new gang of friends and foes who will willingly and unwittingly perpetuate your growing circle of fame and power.
Love the lovers; love the haters — and take no reality from either.
Have you ever lived with, or worked for, an Emotional Terrorist?
I call those people “Incredible Hulks” because their mantra for keeping peace in their lives is to terrorize your with this reminder: “Don’t make me angry! You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry!”
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