Sallust was a Roman historian who believed that alliances are only truly strong when they are formed due to fear of a common enemy.
It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist. Who knows what the urge is all about, to appear somewhere outside yourself, instead of feeling stuck inside your muddled but stroboscopic mind, peering out like a little under sea animal – a spiny blenny, for …
We were all born with this sense of adventure. It's in children's nature to experiment and explore the unknown. They learn first and foremost through movement, which is considered the foundational skill for developing emotional, cognitive and social skils. Children collect and connect information by constantly scouting their environment. They …
A free child is always in fantasy land.
Feeling lost and free, I started thinking about my in between time, not as a dead end to escape, but as a space worth exploring. And with that mindset, I quickly became reacquainted with an old friend and ally: curiosity. Not having a clear playbook to follow opened a world …
Anita did not participate in the events of that morning. She’d been inside the house, and she felt that an injustice had been done to the woman. But does being just necessarily entail shooting oneself in the foot? Even in the flush of their victory, Amma and Malati noticed Anita‘s …
There are some situations in life we cannot see clearly until time has passed, until the story has unfolded in ways we cannot force through hard work and determination. One of the most enduring fantasies in relationships is that if we love enough, work hard enough, communicate enough, understand enough.. …
.. using Transactional Analysis as intellectual tool to understand the basis of behaviour and feelings. A tool often works better and has more meaning if we have some idea how it was developed, how it is different.
Illusions… maybe produced by stimulation of the temporal cortex… and the disturbance produced is one of judgement in regards to the present experience – a judgement that the experience is familiar or strange or absurd: that distance and sizes are altered, and even that the present situation is terrifying.
The evoking of complex memory sequences makes it seem plausible that each of the memories we can recall has a separate neuron pathway. Particularly significant to our understanding of how the past influence the present is the observation that the temporal Corex is obviously utilised in the interpretation of the …
The best advice I ever heard on pricing a product was that your customer should suck air through their teeth and then say yes. Uber’s budget overrun and Microsoft’s seat cancellations look like that effect playing out in practice.
Ovid - nothing is stronger than habit (good or bad)
Winston Churchill - we shape our buildings, and thereafter they shape us.
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actually, the child is in many ways, the most valuable part of the personality and can contribute to the individuals life exactly what an actual child can contribute to the family life: charm, pleasure, and creativity.
There are two forms of the child: the adapted child and the natural …
Who knew that the Child could be so interesting, and I always thought of it so negatively?
I am a mom. I should be able to accept these better. But …
The first rule of communication is that communication will proceed smoothly as long as transactions are complimentary. It's corollary is that as long as transactions are complimentary, communication can in, in principle, proceed indefinitely.
The converse rule is that communication is broken off when crossed transaction occurs.
these …
It's interesting that if there is a Child in front, the only two responses can be parental or adult. And if I am a child, I am also looking for …
The black liquid was a message sent to The officials that Kala Babu, was on his way to the police station. A police man, who did not wish to be named, says,'Those days,it was his way of saying: I am coming to meet you. Make necessary arrangements. He had the …
Knowing system design is a way to win in life, not just in product management. This is another anecdote.
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- They are familiar with your track record and trust you.
- They have a pre-existing relationship with a history of benefit to them.
- You come highly recommended by someone they trust.
They do this for 2 reasons:
- As a thank you for previous …
Read more →Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable. The first step of that journey is understanding where we are, what we're up against, and where we need to go. I think we can best do that by …
Pixar films often feature two main antagonists - one benevolent and one malicious - Buzz/Sid, Princess/Hopper. Ratatouille has three main antagonists: one evil (Skinner), one benevolent (Linguini) and a third, Anton Ego. Ego isn't malicious the way Skinner and Muntz are, but I wouldn't call him benevolent either. He is …
If I am perceived as a 'good' villain, and in my story, I am the protagonist, how do I change the perception to be a protagonist in ALL stories? Perceptions …
Change always comes with a price.
The best kind of conflict offers a chance for both destruction and construction, which would have a fortifying effect against the antagonistic forces.
Change is the measuring unit of conflict.
In a way, stories are a series of conflict - questions presented and answered. Some deal with external forces and some with internal forces.
If a character cares deeply about something, a storyteller must explain the emotional constitution that allows the character to have these opinions - formally known as exposition.