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How many principles do you need to live a successful life?

It is easy to get angry. Let’s see that in a principle.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. ~ Aristotle

OK, it is easy to see that with anger what Aristotle says is true.

But a principle is a truth that is bigger, wider, more encompassing than just the narrow situation we are looking at, in this case ‘anger’.

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Rocks, pebbles, and sand that your life organized around

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Some of my students pondered my article from yesterday and asked themselves: why am I not reading?

One found something that may be the reason billions of people don’t read: by the time they would get to reading, they are too tired. They are spent.

The priority they assign to reading is low.

Normal lives are full of stuff to do that some meme says: you must do.

Take a shower every day, for example. Many people even wash their hair every day. Read the newspaper. Every day. Do shopping when they need something, when they need it. Drive the kid to activities.

Cut coupons. Check facebook, your email, chat, watch cat videos.

Cook every meal… instead of batches is one way many of my students spend their time, instead of reading. I, instead, buy enough to make 7 meals, I cook the food, and put it in sandwich or snack bags… more the snack bags, which are about one fist, so it’s the perfect size.

This means that I don’t cook every day. I always have 10 or so meals prepared in my freezer.

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Day 8 of my fast. And of course a lot of new thoughts

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Day 8

I had a cup of tea yesterday. Slept for two hours in the afternoon. delightful dreamful sleep.

Got up, did some work. Watched the last two episodes of Astrid.

It is clearer to me that anything that I am a lot like Astrid. Astrid is autistic. High functioning autistic.

She is fragile, compelling people to mock her, dislike her, fear her, help her. And she is fearless at the same time. Continue reading “Day 8 of my fast. And of course a lot of new thoughts”

The three umpires… which one are you most like?

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Last night, before I got to bed, I wanted to ‘talk to’ Source.

OK, I actually don’t know what Source is. But over the past 10 or so years I have learned that Source either doesn’t know something, and will let me know, or what source says yes to is actually true.

Last night’s conversation was about money, about my business, about the numbers that seem to tell me that nobody loves me any more… Continue reading “The three umpires… which one are you most like?”

I have the ascension process. ready. but can you hack it?

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I woke up with a question this morning:

Have I succeeded to create a system that can put a human onto the path of becoming a human being?

The answer was ‘yes but’. And the proverbial search for the needle in the haystack began. Continue reading “I have the ascension process. ready. but can you hack it?”

How To Be A Sacred Lotus: Unfrazzled And Happy?

How to be a sacred Lotus, untouched by the rain, the suffering of others, the noise of others: what’s the secret of people that stay on the path and are happy?

Untouched by hunger, cold, lack of food… anything.

What is the reason you are pulled into everything, that you are trying to help everyone, that you are a do-gooder? Continue reading “How To Be A Sacred Lotus: Unfrazzled And Happy?”

The culture of scarcity chasing abundance…

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The culture… it is invisible.

Our culture is also the culture of shortcuts. The culture of quick. The culture of wanting instant. And, of course, the culture of wanting.

What feeds this is the culture of scarcity. We live in the culture of scarcity.

A person needs to see, needs to say that something is not enough. And then they act to fix it. Continue reading “The culture of scarcity chasing abundance…”

What the Nobel Prize winning physicist’s story teaches you

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What can the Nobel Prize winning physicist’s story teach you? OR What did Frank Kern learn the hard way?

First, before I get into the story itself, let’s ponder the meaning of teaching so we are on the same page, OK?

As someone who attempts to teach, let me tell you what it’s like for me. I find a thousand different ways to say, demonstrate, frame what I want to teach. And I invent thousand and one stories. I find books that hint on what I want to teach. Often I sing it, I make it a comedy, make it a tragedy. And I make you read. I make you practice activating your eye muscles and the related brain areas… Continue reading “What the Nobel Prize winning physicist’s story teaches you”

The narrative… the story that creates who you are

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The narrative can be:
* 1.a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
* 2.a book, literary work, etc., containing such a story.
* 3.the art, technique, or process of narrating, or of telling a story: Somerset Maugham was a master of narrative.
* 4.a story that connects and explains a set of supposedly true events, experiences, It intends to support a particular viewpoint or thesis: to rewrite the prevailing narrative about masculinity; the narrative that our public schools are failing.

A student of mine, after listening to my last Sunday call recording, asked why Jews turned to a different strategy than the slaves from Africa. Or Native Americans. Continue reading “The narrative… the story that creates who you are”

Attitudes: the All-or-nothing attitude causes rigidity

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The best training program I have ever participated in was the Introduction to the Forum Leaders Program at Landmark Education.

A good training, I say, begins with screening.

If the purpose is to get the participants trained.

If the purpose is to find out who, what kind of person you can’t train successfully, then accept everyone who applies.

Therefore, the first step of any ‘good’ training program is to screen the applicants. Continue reading “Attitudes: the All-or-nothing attitude causes rigidity”