Become all you can become with Sophie
He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
I once knew a woman in Landmark Education who helped me in many ways after I arrived to Syracuse 19 years ago.
She was “senior” to me both in age and in her job in Landmark Education… and yet often I coached her through some low times. She had a job inside which she struggled.
She once shared with me how ecstatic it felt to her when the cards fly off the board in the online version of the solitaire computer game, Freecell. Continue reading “Greasing the machine: the allure of winning”
What is life about?What is the purpose of life? I mean life for a human being? Not Life, but life…
What is life about? I mean life for a human being? Not Life, but life…
There are two schools of preference. Two schools of priorities. The main difference between the two schools is how they consider your size, and how they define what is your “job” in life, what should be your aspiration. Continue reading “What is life about? I mean life for a human? Your life…”
Greed: Impatience, Hurry, Wanting, Forcing, Craving, Pursuing, Fighting For. Even What You Call “Loving” Is Greed. Sorry to burst your bubble…
And all resistance in the chest, in the pit of the stomach and in the shoulders… whatever the reasoning.
I mean, if you knew that anything with any element of greed in it works to your detriment: it makes you miserable, and it repels what you are greedy for… You would get curious what is the opposite of greed, wouldn’t you?
Continue reading “Greed: Impatience, Hurry, Wanting, Forcing, Craving”
If you can’t beat them… join them… Or what it takes to turn yourself into a high producer…Warning: lots of footnotes in this article!
I am Jewish…
Jewish people are not genetically smarter than non-Jews… In fact, no ethnic groups are genetically smarter than others. And yet, certain groups test better both on tests and in life. 1
Depending on the learning culture of different communities, the IQ numbers differ tremendously. But, in my humble opinion, when you take the child out of the environment, and put them into a different environment, their abilities, their IQ will match the new environment standard… so it is not innate, and not genetic.
This is what is meant by: “all men created equal…” genetically. Not smarter than they were when they left the Savannah of Africa, not genetically. No, with regards to capabilities, it is all in the “nurture”, not in “nature”.
This is the results of my thousands of muscletests over the years. Continue reading “If you can’t beat them… join them… Turn into a high producer…”
My notes: maximum predatory genes: 8
psychopathy is more than just predatory genes.
Putin and Trump have both 8 predatory genes, while Putin is NOT a psychopath.
research, science is often guessing
certain cultures higher number of predatory genes
exceptionally beautiful Russian and Ukrainian women Continue reading “Predatory genes revisited… you have 10 genes, now what?”
A lot of things will get clearer with this new distinction… even though I have only a cursory sense of what I am talking about. But Source does, so some of the muscletest will leave you with your mouth hanging open. Guaranteed.
I get emails wanting solutions to the writer’s problems. Problems that are part of a system… but the writers, and I bet you! hope the problem can be eliminated by a simple advice in an email or an article.
No one gets the iceberg metaphor, even though I explain it over and over again.
Why don’t you get it? Because what is not visible is not visible… And to see what is yet invisible to you, you need to learn to recognize it… But no sane person would want to waste time learning something that isn’t… how do you know there is an invisible? Because I said it?
It’s a Catch 22. It feels that you can’t win. Continue reading “Do your solutions tend to become the next big problem?”
I woke up today feeling good about myself.
Why mention it? Because feeling good about myself is not as frequent as one would think… I could say: I felt better about myself than normal.
Feeling good about yourself is the basis of self-love… that being at home feeling we all crave, but most of us have no idea how to get.
It was, that craving, expressed yesterday by the participants of my workshop 2 to ferret out the issues of the self and brainstorm about a direction that could pull you out of the issue.
Direction, pull you out? Yeah.
Some 16 years ago I was doing a course in New York City, and I was commuting there from Syracuse NY, every week. It was the snowiest winter in my memory. One time I drove down during the day… normally I drove at night when the traffic was sparse. A drive faster and more confidently in snow that others.
And my attitude was: get out of my way! A mix of angry, hurried, superior… not pretty. And suddenly my car slipped to the left and slipped into the snow bank. Continue reading “I woke up today feeling good about myself… so? what is the big deal?! Right?”
Inspiration… what is it and why do you want to have it?Inspiration, breathing life into inert or unconscious matter… is the difference between a machine and a Man…
An inspired action, an inspired life, an inspired person is vastly different from most people, most actions, most lives on the planet. How? in that what guides those is what is beyond the 10% reality, and beyond the emotional dramatic interpretation. And beyond the meaning based lives humans live nowadays. Continue reading “Are you inspirable? Can you even be inspired?”
There is a hidden monkey wrench in the title. Emotions are neither negative nor positive, but let’s just forget that for a moment.
Depending on the answer to that question, you are either a happy, well-adjusted person, or a wretch.
Wow, Sophie, isn’t that an exaggeration? The answer to just one question?
I understand your outrage, but yes. The answer to just one question will tell me what kind of person you are. As far as everything… by the way.
I used to be a person you didn’t want around. I came from an abusive background, and spread it to others in spades. Misery loves company… lol not funny. 3
When suppressed, when denied, emotions go underground. What is unexpressed yearns to be expressed. It builds pressure and one way or another it will express itself. In self-abuse, in the abuse of others, or maybe even more violent ways.
Continue reading “What about your negative emotions?”
