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The DISC of #Trump’s policies: Behind the media-flummoxing bluff is warm and fuzzy Ds goodness.

Nothing fertilizes human thriving like exploding eggheads…Illustration by: Noé MartínezFrom James Pruitt, by email: Was thinking this morning whether you could apply your take on DISC to countries and how they interact with the world? See the US as behaving … Continue reading

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DISC-my-way

DISC is how you choose and why.Photo by: David Geitgey SierralupeDISC as I use that term is a way of understanding most human choices as the habituated outcome of empathy strategies adopted in childhood. Toddlers deploy admixtures of strategies based … Continue reading

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DISC is biology? Politics? No. DISC is an easily-seen map to your – and everyone’s – priorities.

“You want to be seen? Dude! You can’t hide!” When someone is being his authentic, unaffected self, he will show you his DISC type by showing you his empathy strategy by showing you his social praxis by showing you his … Continue reading

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If the very best fathers are Dsci, what would be the ideal DISC strategy for a Dutch Uncle to deploy?

There is no Ideal Man, but there is an ideal Dutch Uncle DISC profile: Dsci.Photo by: Kaaren PerryHard to come up with a question more obtuse than that. But answering it repays effort, I think. If you are an actual Dutch Uncle in … Continue reading

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PEAK is built for peak performance, so why don’t you PEAK yourself? How? By PEAKing your DISC profile.

You say, “Self-improvement?”I say, “Go PEAK yourself!”Sindre Paulsen said something that made me realize my biggest failure to be clear about ThriversEd: PEAK is DISC, weighted. We’re going to teach DISC to kids, practically from birth. They will grow into … Continue reading

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DISC-my-way MY way: Rushing you to a backwards-and-forwards understanding of human motivation.

Someone said, “If you can’t fit your idea on the back of a business card, you don’t have a clear idea.” I think doing the whole job in verse makes the point even better.Now there’s doggerel worthy of Kipling. That’s … Continue reading

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The DISC of staffing: Find the right shoe, first, then find the right foot for it.

If the new guy is a clown – so is the guy who hired him. Doing better – much better – is not just doable but simple.Photo by: Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist BureauHere’s a sphincter-clencher for anyone who manages people: … Continue reading

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Building the perfect Greek: Since DISC is cultivated, we can raise ever-better kids.

The persuasive miracle you seek is not just possible – it’s simple! You’re just talking to the wrong people.Photo by: gemteck1I know how to build Hoplite Greeks – Testudo fathers and mothers – self-responsible parents raising self-responsible parents, generation after … Continue reading

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The DISC of birth order: Each new child fills what is then the biggest hole in your family.

That’s right. I am just who you were expecting!Photo by: JayThere’s an article on leadership and birth order at the Atlantic this morning, but I haven’t read it. It’s behind a paywall, and paying for Marxism is not just double-suicide, … Continue reading

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Discovering #MyKindOfBenedy: Who do you have to kill to find a good villain around here?

Everyone knows how to motivate a villain. You have him rub his hands together with an evil relish and snarl, “Nyar har har har!”Kaptain Kobold / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) I wrote this on … Continue reading

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The Visibility Game: DISC (my way) and the game theory of everything.

Q: What can you tell about a person by the way he walks in a crowd?A: Everything else.Photo by: Aaron Tait Taking the time to really see the people around you will help you navigate your values – and theirs. … Continue reading

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DISC is a universal shaling for the universe each one of us will perfect.

What am I running from? Every race I didn’t win.Photo by: Tsutomu TakasuNow that’s an opaque headline. I’m pretty sure the only person on earth who pays close attention to the things I say is me. That might be a … Continue reading

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DISCing ‘The Band’ shows why their break-up was inevitable – and how to fix your team.

“This wheel shall explode.”I mentioned the DISC profile of The Band the other day in church. Here is a fuller explication, first posted last August. Note that in the video I put Levon Helm on Si, but that was a … Continue reading

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The DISC of Ayn Rand’s anti-family philosophy and how it promotes human misery.

You wanted to know what explains the Incandescent/Cautious female harridans and the Cautious/Incandescent male involuntary-celibates of the libertarian movement: It is this formula for human misery concocted by Ayn Rand.This started as a comment. Then it grew. If you have … Continue reading

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Martin Luther King on DISC: “Conscience asks the question, is it right?”

If you look for DISC discriminations, you’ll find them everywhere. Here is Martin Luther King showing you DISC as he saw it [with my annotations in brackets]: Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? [The Cautious temperament.] Expediency asks the … Continue reading

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