Blog Category: Impression Technique

When I was 17 I was daydreaming while driving a car. I had just had a chess lesson and beaten my instructor in a surprising way. He was surprised and quickly reset the pieces so he could have revenge before the lesson was over. But it didn’t matter. I had beaten him! Crushed him. DESTRUCTION! […]

I didn’t even want her. I loved not having kids. 20 years ago today, all of a sudden, I had this new roommate.  Today is my 20th anniversary as a father. Which also means it’s her 20th birthday. My daughter. When she first moved in as one of my roommates, she couldn’t even speak English. […]

My dad had a stroke and never got better. He was in a sort of “awake” coma for two years. I would visit. He was staring at the ceiling but I don’t know what he saw. Someone had lost his glasses and I knew he was blind without them. When I first would visit, in […]

I’ve been very sad at points. I’ve been lonely. I’ve felt like I was no good at anything. I felt like I didn’t know what the rules were. For happiness. For living. How can I find out? And I felt that I was constantly trying to please others, just to survive, and nobody was trying […]

Is it OK to judge people? NO. One time someone wrote a lie about me. I hated this person. I judged them. Why did they lie about me? Why did they wrong me? I judged them as evil. This person pulled apart two or three of my articles out of hundreds, and pulled sentences out […]

Persistence + Love = Success Reality / Expectations = Happiness Fear + Denial = Anger 1% compounded every day = 3700% Great Idea * Different Great Idea = Unique Idea Community + Mastery + Freedom = Well-Being (My wants > Their wants) + Other Choices = Negotiation Big + Safe + Easy + New = […]

I had a girlfriend once who told me that all her exes ended up being narcissists and that’s why she was single. Her longest relationship in the prior decade was about three months. I’m not blaming her for anything. We ended up dating for 10 months and then I felt we were just different people […]