How are billionaires and trillionaires regarded in our culture, and what does it say about us?
Last week, Matthew referred to a children’s science textbook outlining three symbiotic relationships in nature: mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism, and argued that only win-wins (mutualism) are good while win-lose/lose-wins (parasitism) are immoral.
Continue readingIf win-win relationships are possible, why should we want any part of a win-lose or lose-win? Yet lose-win is what conventional morality offers us explicitly if we take it seriously. And we ought to take it seriously. Our self-esteem and mental health depend on it.
Continue readingWhat is a personal “culture” or identity? And is it ours to shape as we like, or is it determined by factors beyond our control?
How did a Bob Dylan quote from an interview in Netflix’s Rolling Thunder Revue encapsulate an answer to this idea that gave Matthew to cheer?
Continue readingMatthew had been feeling less than optimal for the past several months, but with one small change, his world has brightened again. The change was dramatic and almost immediate.
Continue readingWho is the imposter who grows inside us all, trying to evict us from our own bodies and lives? Why and how do we empower him?
Continue readingYou can make your unwanted cravings disappear. Matthew has. And he’s here to describe how.
Continue readingWe don’t want to see our kids hurting. We certainly don’t want to be the cause of their pain or the object of their hatred. This is the fear that keeps parents and teachers from showing their disappointment, anger, or indignation to kids, instead attempting to explain things to them in a gentler way with no expression of how their actions have made us feel.
Continue readingWhat would embolden you to take on a suicide mission against a terrifying and colossal evil? What makes a leader? How can a leader be convincing and motivate those he proposes to lead? Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King shows us the answers.
We must sacrifice a lot for love, right? That’s just common knowledge.
Matthew disagrees. He would never sacrifice anything to anyone. And neither should you, he argues. But would he die for that which he loves? Sure. What the wha’???
Continue readingWhat is the source of value and production: brain, brawn, or both? How does Disney/Pixar’s ‘Ratatouille’ dramatize the answer? What does intellectual independence look like? What is Anton Ego’s motivation in being a food critic?
Continue readingIt’s not about effort. It’s about mindset. We’re already working hard. Our ideas make sense, else we wouldn’t be doing them. What most of us need—and are missing—is a breakthrough in our thinking. Yet that breakthrough at first won’t make sense…
Want to know more? Listen to mindset coach Jarrod Haning, as he and Matthew discuss the following and much more in this interview full of powerful ideas leading toward that breakthrough shift:
-life coach vs. performance coach
-attitude vs. mindset
-music and your brain
-why to-do lists slow you down (“You are the assistant.”)
-How is stage fright related to business success?
-personality tests vs. the MindScan (and how the former are dangerous)
-how to uncover thinking blindspots
-Operating in your “clumsy” vs. your “genius”
-how to arrange your day around your “zone of genius”
-mindset “pushups”
-Thinking Patterns of Success
-Jarrod’s unusual personal accomplishments
Does good etiquette lead to self-esteem? Or is etiquette just a social convention imposed upon us and a show put on for others?
Learn the “meaning behind the manners,” as Nita Patel distinguishes traditional and modern etiquette, defining the latter as “where outer actions and your inner awareness come together to achieve your best self.”
