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“Greg Swann has insights into emotion on levels that really make you think. He can pluck that one annoying gray hair with pinpoint accuracy. He is a philosopher of sorts and he says and does what philosophers do. He shakes you to the bone, bumps your cup and lets you see what spills out. You see what you see and he sees what he sees. I’ll bet they are dramatically similar and extraordinarily different.” –Jeff PriceMy favorite job title is Poet. Why? No license, no union, no credentialism. If you can learn, you will. If you can't, you won't waste my time. I grow regardless.
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I made a killer presentation on the empathy of DISC profiling – and got fired for my efforts.
What? Me worry?The presentation I made to The 21 Convention in Tampa in October of 2014 has finally been made available. I spoke on the underlying empathy strategies that result in the DISC personality profile, providing a scorecard to human … Continue reading
Empathy for the Incandescent: Using the DISC system to understand the cast of Entourage.
“You will note that there are no C’s at all in the group. This is why Vinnie, who is paid millions of dollars per movie, is always broke. No one in the family can make a buck last from now … Continue reading
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
Empathy tells all: Why are libertarians so hostile to marriage and family?
Do you see any room for a baby – an endlessly needy whining mammal that will never, ever pay back its monetary and opportunity costs – in there? That’s why you see so few babies among libertarians.Photo by: Lisa Rosario[From … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
The DISC of #Trump – why he is a thug and why he will grow evermore thuggish.
This is what a child’s face looks like when he realizes his father will not yield to his affected display of infinite pain. Within his home, Fred Trump was the Irreproachable. What did that make troublesome young Donald?I know how … Continue reading
The Rancor-Free Marriage: Deploying better empathy strategies to be most-happily wed.
A key to our happy marriage is my desire to keep my Cathleen looking on me that way.How is that you can get along so perfectly with your dog or cat, when there is so much ongoing conflict in your … Continue reading
DISClosing the game theory of everything with a DISCerning DISCrimination of the DISC personality types.
Portrait of the author as a Driven/Incandescent.I talk about DISC all the time, but if you don’t already know what I’m talking about, I may be leaving you lost. I can link to Wikipedia’s DISC Assessment page, but that’s truly … Continue reading
Empathy for the machine that is your body: If you can tell someone how you surf – you can’t surf.
When you surf, you want to know where the board’s going to be. When you drive, you want to know how the car is going to respond to the road. And when you engage with another person, animal or machine, … Continue reading
Introduction to Nine empathies – Empathy for empathy itself.
I’m writing a short book of philosophy this weekend discriminating among depths of empathy. This is how it begins: Introduction: Empathy unbound. Of the nine kinds of empathy I want to explore, only three concern real people, the next three … Continue reading
Fisking Ayn Rand on abortion: Why her utilitarianism is necessarily anti-man, anti-mind, anti-life.
“The don’t want to live. They want you to die.” –Ayn RandSaturday marks the six-month three year anniversary of the release of the first of the Planned Parenthood infanticide-mining videos. In all that time, the Ayn Rand Institute has had … Continue reading