In this, my final post in this thread, I require an illustration to visually represent an important part of the conversation. http://www.faqs.org/photo-dict/photofiles/list/2775/3696balance.jpg Balance. If there’s a single theme that’s been hiding out, gently nudging us around in this conversation, it has been balance. I’d like that one big stone you’ve got (for context, you really [...]
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
I say again, give and take. Let’s reverse the order: take and give! Take your prospect’s story and only then give yours. Now let’s pair our elements up a little more tightly. For your prospect’s desired rewards story, give your own efforts story. How will you begin, work and complete your efforts to gain your [...]
Give and take. If you didn’t quite follow our last mediation on recognizing yourself – your soul, actually – in the mirror, that’s okay. Here’s why. It is not easy to enter into any direct give and take with your own soul. It’s very, very difficult. That’s a good part of the reason we need [...]
Today’s meditation on recognition is but this request: Find a mirror. Look in, deeply. Do you recognize the soul looking back at you? The request is, please, see if you can’t recognize yourself, today, for yourself. Will you try? Okay, second request: I’d dearly love to hear what that person, the soul in the mirror, [...]
Note from Nico: The above video is NSFW due to explicit language. It is, however, hilarious. What’s the story behind Respect? Who is respect’s great philosopher? I’m tempted to offer Adam Sandler. He used to make comedy albums, back in the days even before CDs, if you can believe it. There was a track he [...]
Today’s meditation is on power. Of our four elements, none has so bad a reputation, and none is more important. That’s right, even considering what Hegel had to say, I emphasize, nothing is more important than power. The reason it heads our list of values is that the other three are its children. Father Power [...]
Monday, February 28, 2011
When we look as deeply as we are into PR3, a strange question must sooner or later arise. Why? Why is it that there is a story at all? That is, why are the values of others, their power, respect, recognition and rewards convertible into stories? How does this come to be? A quick answer [...]
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Obsessions can be destructive. They can completely mislead you. Yesterday, I argued for the obsession of pure focus on the recognition needs of others. To qualify, I consider that to be a particularly safe obsession, as obsessions go! But, “particularly safe” does not equal “without risk or danger at all!” There is actually no such [...]
Monday, February 21, 2011
Why is such a strange argument as Hegel’s extreme position on recognition basic, even fundamental? Why should you know about it – no, why MUST you know about it; and what does it have to do with your business endeavors? The first doorway to walk through in attempting to answer these pragmatic questions is this: [...]
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
To die, or to be a slave and live? How can this choice, now long dead on ancient battlefields where man-to-man combat entailed sharp weapons we no longer use, still be meaningful today? Slavery is a long-dead institution…right? Yes, we’re working on Plato right now, but I have to ask, have you seen the movie [...]
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