I came up with a saying decades ago that has guided my life. It’s this: “You can’t choose what to look at, but you can choose how to look at it.” The main building block to this realization was master negotiator Robert Dawson’s audio series on negotiation tactics, where he gave the example of holding … [Read more…]
Disclaimer: More often than not Americans bury important subjects by exploiting generalizations that make it impossible to make points about groups if there exist exceptions within that group. “Black people have high crime rates,” “white people can’t dance.” Through mandatory absolutism one can bar a subject from discussion and thus stop exploration of unwanted subject … [Read more…]