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How To Brain Hack Painful Memories
Choose The Past You Prefer He caught pneumonia and it turned into tuberculosis. He was only 6 maybe 7 years old. (I think I saw this story in The Rise of Superman...) His family was too poor to pay for "normal" hospital, so they put him in the charity ward. (This was before...
Of Whisky & Marketing Coaches
I love great whisky. And I have desperately needed help with my own marketing. Chip Tate makes some great whisky. (And will be making more.) Cliff Jones has created a system for solving the biggest sales & marketing problems. And it's like nothing on earth. So in honor of...
Improving Criminal Justice?
This is the Justice Problem Law enforcement and the criminal justice system treat crime as a profit center, rather than as an obligation to make sure justice is served. I can hear you exclaim, "You're nuts!" Perhaps I am. But consider... If someone steals my car, gets caught,...
Grief: The Irrational Clue to Humanity’s Origins
Grief. It makes no sense from an evolutionary standpoint. When we suffer loss, we rage at the cruelty of fate and grieve for an imagined future that will never be. Why? When our dreams shatter, when we fail ourselves and each other, when shit happens, when the universe rubs us...
Purplevania: A Parable of Tolerance, Dance & Death
The people of Purplevania, more than any country on earth, loved ballroom dance. The waltz. The tango. The fox-trot and the quick-step. The paso doble and the rumba. Year after year, the greatest ballroom dancers in the world came from Purplevania. Yet all was not sunshine and...
Artist or Accountant?
Do the Scales Balance? A guy driving back from a fishing trip is killed when a rock thrown from an overpass crashes through his windshield. Shit happens. An otherwise-healthy 32-year-old mother of 5 small children contracts breast cancer and dies within 4 months of the...