Category Archives: Relationships

Video: What an entrepreneurship course can deliver, part 2

on April 25, 2016 in Education, Entrepreneurship, Models, Relationships

Here is an interview with a student who took my online entrepreneurship course, RJ, who is an undergraduate at NYU. Reach your potential in business and life. My courses don’t take time from the rest of life. You work with people in your life that you care about on projects that you care about without distracting from the rest of your work and life. Learn more about the course and[…] Keep reading →

Use fewer words

on April 7, 2016 in Education, Perception, Relationships, Tips

Extra words water down what you say. “Go ahead and…” for example. People with lower status use more words to say the same thing. People who feel insecure keep talking and explaining more than they need. I think people are afraid of implying they’re equal to people they see above them. Is that what you want for yourself? Speak more succinctly and see if weathering the challenge leads you to[…] Keep reading →

People don’t want to argue, they want to feel understood

on April 5, 2016 in Awareness, Relationships

Over and over when I review arguments after their emotional intensity has decreased, everyone’s most important motivation seems that they want to feel understood. It doesn’t matter if I’m arguing or I see other people arguing. They don’t even need agreement, just to feel listened to and understood. When both parties want the other to understand them first, they create an unpleasant but stable system driving them both to anger,[…] Keep reading →

I’ve been catching up my whole life

on March 29, 2016 in Choosing/Decision-Making, Education, Entrepreneurship, Fitness, Models, Perception, Relationships

School Doing a gratitude exercise recently, writing my undergraduate advisor who helped me figure out how to major in physics starting my second semester junior year. Physics is intense so most of my classmates were younger, having known their major since high school. So academically, I was catching up with classmates from when I chose my major. I just finished the major in my last semester and got into Penn[…] Keep reading →

Video: How to Make Meaningful Connections

on March 8, 2016 in Awareness, Entrepreneurship, Exercises, Leadership, Relationships, Stories, Tips

Here is the video from Sunday’s webinar on How to Make Meaningful Connections, which, as I describe in it and you’ll find if you practice the exercise in it, is about how to develop compassion. The exercise in this webinar teaches some of the most valuable skills you can learn about relationships. Every leader I’ve ever heard talk about compassion describes it as critical, up there with empathy and self-awareness.[…] Keep reading →

Video: The Worst Problem in the World

on March 7, 2016 in Awareness, Leadership, Models, Nonjudgment, Perception, Relationships, Visualization

I’ve shown this representation of what I call The Worst Problem in the World at many seminars. I wrote about it about five years ago. Now you can see the video. Watch all the way through to see some solutions. Take my course if you want to get beyond it and resolve it in your life, mainly by doing the exercises in it to develop compassion and empathy.

Webinar: How to Make Meaningful Connections, Sunday 1pm EST

on March 3, 2016 in Education, Leadership, Relationships, Tips

After teaching, coaching, studying, and practicing leadership for twenty years, I announced my online leadership course, “Introducing the most effective leadership course available anywhere.” I’m hosting a series of free webinars on the most actionable, useful, effective, and exciting parts of the course. My webinars will always deliver exclusive, valuable lessons you can use that day and how to build for the long term. Attend my fourth webinar, free, this[…] Keep reading →

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