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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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Using the DISC system – my way – to fix every social machine in your life.
I can show you everything you’re missing.Photo by: Joshua ZaderAs the ultimate triumph of my private anti-mutiny of the Driven over the Cautious, I can document the Science of Carney – how to predict with precision which way any particular … Continue reading
The DISC of clowns: Understanding outsized Incandescents by their subdominant motivation.
“Dude. I’m not even Incandescent at all. My owner is. Underneath all this gear, I’m totally Sociable, I swear!”Photo by: PetfulSunday at Church I talked about deploying my notion of the subdominant motivation in my recasting of the DISC system … 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
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
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
The DISC of Love and Sales: A glimpse of my 21 Convention (#t21c) presentation.
How to close on the people you want to persuade with mutually-beneficial results. What church is more about the successful execution of human life than The Church of Splendor? This is me from Tampa, in advance of my presentation to … 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
The Atlantic discovers Fathertongue, breathlessly concluding that dancing bears are NOT ‘just like us.’
News flash: It would seem that beat induction is a uniquely human, cognitive skill Zounds! Abstraction, which can only be done by human beings, can only be done by human beings! Who knew…? Of course, the wannabe ruling class can … Continue reading
Love at first sight, twenty-five years later: Someone to thrive with.
I wrote this twenty years ago today, but it describes events that happened twenty-five years ago. You’ll figure it out… If you wonder what a gorgeous woman like that is doing with a schlub like me, I commend you to … Continue reading
My only points of disagreement with Ayn Rand, libertarianism and scholarship in general: Everyone has been wrong about everything, going back forever.
My epistemology professor – a playful peripatetic.I have met a lot of big-O and biggish-O Objectivists over the years – people who were present in the salons at the Hotel Martinique, others who were actual invited guests to the show … Continue reading
Ayn Rand and me – why my homework is late…
Human thriving is not a solitary pursuit? Who knew?I am dilatory, plainly. More than a year since I’ve written anything here, and that story’s horrors bloom like mold spores. For two years and more, I’ve been stuck with a book … Continue reading
My three Trumps: Envisioning strategies leading to an exit strategy.
Start here: I am not a Trump fan-boy. Never was, and, while I haven’t written much here lately, you can follow my trajectory of Trump affination in these pages over the last five years. At first I feared what everyone … Continue reading
The way to beat Ci compliance displays is to rob them of their oxygen: Your compliance.
Thanks to Google, now even girls know how to shop for just what they want, ignoring everything else.I’ve vituperated a lot, lately, about Ci and its inverse, obverse photo-copy Ic. There’s a reason for that: We live in a Ci … Continue reading