Live Your Gifts
You can only be happy if you are sharing your gifts, whatever they may be, with the world around you. But when you’re seeking validation or approval from others, you edit, restrict, or hide you true gifts. And that is a tragedy.
Beliefs, Assumptions and Mind Viruses…
It takes a strong ego to believe that you have something important enough to say, that it motivates you to write a book, launch a podcast or publish a blog. Nothing inherently wrong with that. But when do you cross the line from coach to propagandist, from beneficial to evil?
Seize Your Advantage
There have certainly been some brilliant people in the world. People who accomplished game-changing, even world-changing stuff. Yet you possess an advantage that none of them ever had…
Elite Propaganda Masters
We could debate the motives of people who do this. Are they calculating and conniving, or simply idealists who believe they are on this planet to “save” people with their superior intellect and ideas? In actuality, their intent or motivation doesn’t really matter. What matters are the results. In this case, how you respond to people who want to program you with any set of beliefs.
Keeping Your Mind Open
People can be faced with a tsunami of facts and evidence on something, but if this conflicts with a cherished belief of theirs, they find a way to completely negate the facts. This isn’t a case of just filtering out evidence that clashes with their opinions. It’s a case of them being smacked upside the head with the evidence and consciously finding a way to invalidate it. No matter how much they have to contort, warp or totally flee from logic.
In Defense of Plateaus…
Sometimes you’re going to feel stuck or blocked. You’ll be in a holding pattern on a plateau. And we all know that plateaus are bad. It means you’re lazy or stupid, and you’re not evolving and growing. But is all that really true?
Prosperity and Human Dignity
I think we have to go back to my first assertion, that we need to navigate commentary, satire, and all forms of humor through the lens of where we are stealing people’s dignity. We have to attack, speak out against or criticize the behavior or ideas – not the person. Now this is where it gets messy for me…
Discrimination, Hate, and Danger in an Enlightened Society
We don’t all have to like everyone else. Sometimes we won’t all understand everyone else. But to be in an enlightened society, we must all allow every human the dignity they deserve.
Comedy, Politics and Prosperity (Part two)
Where we cross the line, from the standpoint of prosperity consciousness, is when we attack people, not their behaviors or ideas. Attacks against people for their physical appearance, family, religion, sexuality, or disabilities, robs them of their human dignity.
Comedy, Politics and Prosperity, part one
Much like the free press protects democracy, I believe the free speech of controversial comedians protects us from some of the darkest impulses of human nature. Great humor and satire only works when there is an element of truth to it. Otherwise it wouldn’t be funny.
