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Unbelievable. 12 straight draws in the World Chess Championship between reigning champion Magnus Carlsen and American challenger Fabiano Caruana. Is that a failure for Magnus? Did he not defend his title? No! This is a great success. Because of second-level strategic thinking. I have failed to do second-level strategic thinking many times. Example: I ran […]

Sometimes I wake up depressed. I want more. I want to be the hero of my story. I think of the stupid things I said the night before. I worry what people think of me. I worry if my kids like me. I reset once-friends and what they “did” to me. I want to be […]

Thanksgiving, I went up on stage. 15 people were in the audience. A small number. It didn’t matter. It was an American holiday so nobody in the audience was from the US except my two daughters. So I didn’t use my regular material. I just said, “We’re like a United Nations here. Tell me your […]

If you enhance the lives of the people around you, you will enhance yourself. The days are often foggy, the ships at sea get lost. Being the beacon saves lives. I only know because I have lived so much of my life in a fog. Crashing into the shore, with nobody as my beacon, nobody […]

And that’s when things went bad: One time she walked out and said, “I have to run errands” and she then went straight to the airport, flew to another country, and I never saw her again. Another time, another relationship, she said, “I love you” and two days later was married to another person in […]

Imagine this: a woman slave escapes from you. You try to kidnap her away from her children, and bring her back to your house. You want her to spend the rest of her life as your slave. I’m fascinated by the story of Ona Judge. For one thing, I love anyone named Ona. But more […]

I’d be a loser if I couldn’t follow my own advice right now. I’m in a state of panic right this second. PANIC. FEAR. OBSESSING. ANXIETY. I lost my passport and birth certificate. I have no other form of ID. I have to FLY to Panama on Sunday. In order to get a passport in […]