Improving Our “Signals” and “Beings”

This is a book review of Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ.
I purchased the 10th anniversary edition of this “groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be smart”. 10 years following the release of his book, Goleman’s development and popularisation of emotional intelligence (EQ or EI) has sprouted a [...]

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” – Sophocles, 496-406 B.C.
“What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things, instead of using people and loving things.” – Author Unknown.
“Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love [...]

This is a book review of Susan Scott’s Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time.
If you have ever felt the need to have an important conversation, but you couldn’t bring yourself to having it, then this is the book for you. Susan Scott details the exact methods to [...]

When you think of delegation, do you limit your thoughts to organizational leadership? Do you think delegating activities is only a skill organizational leaders should know? Book after book has been written on delegating activities in a business context. However, the act of delegating is a powerful skill any person should learn for their personal [...]

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 your worries, fears, disagreements, interpersonal conflict, anger, and misunderstandings can be reinterpreted so that they empower you; instead [...]

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, [...]

You’re about to unlock what I believe is the greatest human need in communication. I’m going to show you how to connect with your fellow human being in the most intimate way possible – a way that many people have never experienced their entire life. This is something I know the world so desperately needs. [...]

“Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.” – Radclyffe Hall
“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“You don’t have to hold a [...]

“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

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“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 [...]