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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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Category Archives: ThriversEd
Programming better kids? You give me 13 minutes, I’ll give you grandchildren.
A better future? It’s easy. Just program better kids.Photo by: JayIf you haven’t followed my writing on the DISC-optimization of education, you’ve missed a lot. A simple praxis, really: A child cultivates his DISC profile – his life-long go-to empathy … Continue reading
#ThriversEd: Because anyone can be a Dutch Uncle, people are kids, too.
I’m with the Jesuits: There is no answer better than another question, and children never tire of well-aimed inquiries.Photo by: Bev SykesThe world we live in is not just underfathered – it’s underchildered, too. Much of what I have to … Continue reading
The origin of character: You chose to be who you are before you knew you had the power of choice.
“Why, yes, I am working you. How’d you guess?”Photo by: Mysudbury.ca Ouisudbury.caMy taxonomy of kids is Infants, Babies, Toddlers, Children. Infants snooze, Babies observe, Toddlers participate and Children converse. Children are awake – persistently volitionally self-conscious of abstract conceptual self-consciousness … Continue reading
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
What’s the secret to raising generation after generation of great families? The right map.
Us against the world?This is how it’s done.The only families who reliably raise great families – good kids who grow up to raise good kids – are what I call Testudo families: Dad has persuaded everyone in the family to … Continue reading
Habituating reliability: The curse of the unreliable Dutch Uncle – and how to cure it.
Mutiny is the reliable proxy signal of unreliable leadership.Photo by: Javonni ChristopherThere is a category of cinema we might as well call the dutch uncle movie. (Yes, it is taxing to talk to me, since the same terms come up … Continue reading
Battle of the Ideal Men! Jesus vs Mohammed vs Marx vs Rand: Whose PEAK score is the one to beat?
Why is the idea of an ‘ideal man’ so self-destructive? You ain’t him, so you will in due course either reject your ideal or you will affect to be him in your behavior.That’s anegoism – selflessness – either way.The man you want … Continue reading
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
Wanna see #ThriversEd in action, now, today, wherever you are?
What will you find at the skatepark?All the motivation absent from school.Photo by: Noah_DiamondGo to the skatepark. You’ll see a thriving Institute of Persistent Excellence composed entirely of peaceful, purposeful, playful volunteers. Dutch Uncles and their adhocracies? Simultaneously abundant and … Continue reading
Why do children rebel so comprehensively against schooling? Why do rape victims fight back?
If you read my magnum opus yesterday, you know a lot more about ThriversEd than you did before. Here’s something I figured out only later: Schooling : Education :: Rape : Love-making The way we’ve done schooling so far – … Continue reading
#ThriversEd: Snagging the wrench out of the works with self-improvement for the not-yet self-aware.
“You’re following all this, right?”Photo by: Daniel X. O’NeilTrue confession: I can be fun to be around – for a while. But eventually I start to wear on almost everyone, because I can be juggling so many eggs, torches, bowling … Continue reading
What’s the Stone Soup game? In three quick minutes – what have you got?
You bring what you’ve got. I’ll bring what I’ve got. Together we’ll have a feast of the mind.Photo by: Paul JosephStone Soup is not just one of the earliest of the ThriversEd games, as with the Dutch Uncle game, it encapsulates … Continue reading
PEAK the Yelp-killer: How a few magic beans could change your evaluation of everything.
“Where’s my added-value?”Let’s see… I threw off a social network, but who who needs another one of those? Mine has recruitment, participation and retention incentives, where none of the others do – and no need for advertising and all the … Continue reading
Why did those fussy old schoolmarms make such a fetish of useless subjects like penmanship?
Q: If a kid has a fidget toy, what doesn’t he have?A: Enough to do with his hands.Photo by: fidgetcircleDon’t confuse me. I don’t love top-down, outside-in education any way it’s done. But still: There are better and worse ways … Continue reading
The independence you crave is freedom from Cautious tyranny – and only the Driven can deliver it.
Here’s a fun tweet from me (well, fun for me, anyway): How East Eats West: Jesus the Sc wed the Dc Greeks to the Ci Jews, yielding the Ds Anglosphere—now being devoured by Ci #Marxism and #Islam. — Greg Swann … Continue reading