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Amazon.com: bit.ly/NineEmpathiesFREE this weekend for Kindle: Why academics get empathy all wrong: Empathy ultimately is imagination – the invocation of the presumed mental states to be found in other people’s minds, but also the contra-factual insistence that one can experience … Continue reading →

The untouchable is scorned by everyone, of course, but his counterpart – the irreproachable – is prized by all the others precisely because he scorns them – with their own consent.Photo by: Carl Nenzén LovénThere is a semi-brutal chapter in … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

“Fifty years from now you two could still be together, surrounded by everything you love, all because you won this trophy of your affection for her today…” And that is closing like a carney, with an empathy for that particular … Continue reading →

When you praise your kids’ virtues the way you do your dog’s, you’ll love your whole family better.Photo by: wsilverIn Nine empathies, I raise the idea of the empathy for the opposite, trying to make conjectures about another person’s mental … Continue reading →

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 →

“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 →

I understand empathy well enough to surmise that your biggest fear is that you have not over-prepared enough. But imagine yourself right now on a surfboard in good water. If all you do is wait for the right wave, the … Continue reading →

The Grand Unifying Theory of Human Motivation – as taught to me by a turtle, and by an eternally-outraged human reptile.To read more about empathy, see me, feel me, touch me, heal me at Amazon.com.This is a big, big day … Continue reading →

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 →

Not only do parents and friends deserve to be scolded, scorned and shunned, but your unborn baby secretly wants to die! What should you do? Try not listening to underfathered moral idiots.I made a video for The 21 Convention’s Youtube … Continue reading →

“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 →

“If you’re his favorite skateboard, he’s a crystal vase to you, a thing to be treasured forever or shattered in an instant’s rage.”This story first appeared in Sun City, but it’s also collected in Loving Cathleen, a book about building a … Continue reading →