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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.
I’m not like you. That’s why you should listen to me. I’m in an empathy of opposites with everyone: All they see are reasons to complain, when all I want to do is dance. I know why we are the way we are and how we can learn to do better with each other – making everything better.
I am fomenting a philosophical revolution that will change everything for everyone in due course. How? By finally fully redeeming Western Civilization.
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A 100% FREE collection of some of the best of the Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie stories. You will want to read all of my books, but here is a cost-free way to get started.Buy my books at Amazon.com
Dusty
An elegy of hope and love.
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Traindancing
Bedtime stories for your inner child from The Mall of Misfit Families.
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Las Vegas Redemption
Pastor Trey Coyle and the reincarnation of Sarno’s Ghost.
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Shyly’s delight
Work, play and love like a Labrador.
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Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
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Father’s Day
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More Father. More Man.
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Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
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Sun City
Loved ones die. Life goes on.
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Losing Slowly
How Las Vegas lost its mojo – and how to get it back
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Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie's Christmas stories
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- Greg Swann writes – fiction and early essays.
- PresenceOfMind.net – a weblog I maintained in the early years of the new millenium.
- BloodhoundBlog – a national real estate weblog I started and contribute to. Much of the content there will be real estate related, but everything I write is focused on the self, and this is best represented in the longer essays.
- SplendorQuest.com – a weblog devoted to celebrating the uniquely human life.
Search Results for: DISC empathy
Q: Why does nothing ever seem to change? A: All you’re trying to change is nothing.
How do people know conservatives favor reptilian empathy?Image by: Derek BridgesTrump can’t win. The GOP-majority Congress can’t win. The Tea Party can’t win. The amassed roar of redneck rage can’t win. How is it that the majority can’t win anything? I can … Continue reading
Ayn Rand’s 7 helpful tips for wrecking your marriage with a total, lifelong commitment.
That Robert Tracinski is a hard-working carney!Photo by: Paul SablemanRobert Tracinski braced yet another cleansing ritual yesterday, seeking absolution from the goddess of his idolatry with his umpteenth mountain of cotton-candy praise. Kim Jong-un should have such an apple polisher. … Continue reading
Q: Who knows you better than you know yourself? A: Everyone who is successfully milking you.
Look around the poker table. Don’t look for the sucker. You wouldn’t be looking if you didn’t already know it’s you. Instead, look for the guy who can’t seem to stop pissing you off. ¡Abre los ojos! YOU are HIS sucker.Photo by: … 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
Donald #Trump is Prince Hal, not Henry V. Here’s how you can spot the tells.
Cleaning up this mess? Now that would be women’s work.Once more unto the breach: This weekend’s events demonstrate that newly-anointed President Donald Trump is an Incandescent temperament, not a Driven personality. (Say whuuut? If you’re new, here’s the Cliff’s Notes … Continue reading
Do you want to engineer a happy marriage? He drives, she rides shotgun.
Want a happy marriage? It’s easy. Whatever he is at work, at home the husband should manage his behavior as a Driven Sociable: A definite agenda with a focus on affection and enjoyment. And whatever she does outside the home, … Continue reading
How you came to be enslaved – and how you can free yourself.
You’ve made plans to go to a business conference. You made a mistake when you calendared the event, so you arrive at the hotel ballroom thinking you are twenty minutes early when, in fact, you are forty minutes late.Gulp.Photo by: … Continue reading
Donald #Trump’s fatal conceit? You can’t fake leadership.
You were expecting Henry V? More fool you.What cost Donald Trump Iowa? The man is a phony – and everyone knows it. I’ve written too much about this loser already, and I expect there will be more to be heard … Continue reading
What’s even better than rancor management? How about avoiding rancor altogether – supplanting it with delight?
The people around you are open books. I can teach you how to read.Sunday’s Church of Splendor homily takes us once beyond rancor management: By apprehending the empathy strategies of the people around you, you can engineer your social groups … Continue reading
Want to dump #Trump? You give me three minutes, I’ll give you Donald Trump’s Achilles heel.
A short clip from yesterday’s Church of Splendor homily, how to make Donald J. Trump blow up in public like the fat, needy pussy he is: The Grand Unifying Theory of Human Motivation – as taught to me by a … Continue reading
Cold-blooded vengeance: Exposing Curt Doolittle’s – and libertarianism’s – inner-thug.
Dominance by relentless vindictive retribution: The naked essence of Curt Doolittle’s pathetic impotence on full display. When people are gracious enough to show you who they are, don’t spurn that gift – learn from it.Curt Doolittle has something to prove, … Continue reading
Rancor Management 099: The anatomy of recurring conflict.
Why do you have the same fights over and over? What can you do differently from now on?Photo by: Soukéïna FELICIANNEWhy do you have the same disputes with the same people in the same way every time? What can you … Continue reading
A brief introduction to the assbackwardness of everything: Finding our way back to the garden of hope.
The Cautious cannot hope for the prosperity of the future, because they are too busy lamenting the losses of the past.Photo by: BrandonTo refuse to think is to refuse to live. Accordingly, if you’re not studying me, you are wasting … Continue reading
Using emotions as tools of cognition: Pain is nature’s way of telling you you’re getting something wrong.
’Tards gonna ’tard. Don’t let them do it to you – and don’t do it with them!Photo by: JD HancockI’ve spent six months, now, pummeling The Ayn Rand Institute. This is precisely as fair as Donald Trump picking on poor, … Continue reading
A raucous video podcast about the manly art of manliness: “It’s not growth if it’s not painful.”
Socrates, Steve Mayeda and me – having fun with staccato iconoclasm. Note and disclaimer: Speaker Greg Swann is no longer affiliated with The 21 Convention or 21 Studios in any ongoing capacity. Urf. I don’t hate it that I make … Continue reading