Improving Our “Signals” and “Beings”

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This is a book review of Michael Hall and Bobby Bodenhamer’s Mind-lines: Lines for Changing Minds.
You’ve been to told to see the glass as half full, but how do you do it? Have you ever wondered how [...]

This is a book review of Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power.
Robert Greene is author of three savvy books covering seduction, war, and power. His interest in topics that others overlook because they appear greedy, manipulative, and condescending have caused people to frown upon his work. However, on the “opposite side” of his reviewers [...]

On October 23, 1990, David Pologruto, a high school physics teacher, was stabbed by his smart student Jason Haffizulla. Jason was not a teenager you think would try to kill someone. He got straight A’s and was determined to study medicine at Harvard, but this was his downfall. His physics teacher gave Jason a B, [...]

This is a book review of Savoy’s Magic Bullets, a popular book for guys that precisely teaches them how to pick-up women.
Savoy isn’t the author’s real name but a pen name like what most guys have in the seduction community; especially the teachers as it is a way of protecting their identity from the many [...]

This is a book review of Mel Helitzer’s Comedy Writing Secrets: The best-selling book on how to think funny, write funny, act funny, and get paid for it.
Mel Helitzer is a professor at the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Though a humorous professor seems like a bit of an oxymoron, he has been described as [...]

“Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.” - Richard Whately
“Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.” - Loren Eiseley
“We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” - [...]

“Man prefers to think what he prefers to be true.” - Francis Bacon, Sr.
“Leadership comes through respect, and a large part of respect is liking someone.” - Carol Leonard
“Each man is led by his own liking.” - Virgil

You arrive at a bus station where you wait for a bus to go to work. While you [...]

This is a book review of Richard Bandler and John Grinder’s Frogs Into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming. It has been referred by many as the book to read for somebody starting out in neuro-linguistic programming and rightfully so.
Richard Bandler and John Grinder are the founders of neuro-linguistic programming so you can expect a fair in [...]

“Forbidden things have a secret charm.” - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.” - Jim Rohn

When I came to write about [...]

“When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.” - Napoleon Hill
“Whether by presenting us with an initial favor or initial concession, the requester will have enlisted a powerful ally in the campaign for our [...]