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“The second crucial thing I learned, especially from the authors of Crucial Conversations, is that every conversation takes place on two levels: the official conversation and the actual conversation. The official conversation is represented by the words we say about whatever topic we are nominally discussing: politics, economics, workplace issues—whatever. The actual conversation occurs in the ebb and flow of underlying emotions that get transmitted as we talk. With every comment you are either making me feel a little more safe or a little more threatened. With every comment I am showing you either respect or disrespect. With every comment we are each revealing something about our intentions: Here is why I am telling you this. Here is why this is important to me. It is the volley of these underlying emotions that will determine the success or failure of the conversation.”

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Book:How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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“Repressing my own feelings became my default mode for moving through the world. I suppose I was driven by the usual causes: fear of intimacy; an intuition that if I really let my feelings flow, I wouldn't like what bubbled up; a fear of vulnerability; and a general social ineptitude.”

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Book:How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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“I must admit, sometimes I like being alone. I like playing with kids too, but there is always a problem. This problem is how people react when they see me, especially kids. I am always the one who suffers. They stare at me making ugly faces and say some mean words. It really hurts, and I must leave. I really hope that I never meet them again. Being alone protects me.”

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Book:The bright side of pain : The story of a boy who wished he could be ordinary.
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“You are always creating your state of being in every moment, based on the way you are perceiving reality. Perception is creation. To perceive reality correctly (according to unity) is to create a positive, expansive state of being. To perceive reality incorrectly (according to separation) is to create a negative, contracted state of being.”

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Book:The Three Beliefs of Ego: A Sufferer’s Guide to Freedom
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“The first drink, for me anyway, brings about a significant change in emotional state. I've come to realise that each subsequent drink represents an attempt to replicate that glorious change of state the first drink achieved. This endeavour is futile; I've laboured in vain, because each drink brings about a smaller change of state.”

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Book:The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less
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“Human life, Rousseau understood, begins not in democracy but in monarchy. The baby, on whom caregivers ardently dote, has no way of surviving except by making slaves of others. Babies are so weak that they must either rule or die. Incapable of shared work or reciprocity, they can get things only by commands and threats, and by exploiting the worshipful love given them by others. (In letters, Rousseau made it clear that this was why he abandoned his children: he just didn’t have time to be at a baby’s beck and call.)”

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Book:The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
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“An objective financial mindset promotes a careful and balanced approach to investing, avoiding the emotional biases that can disrupt even the best financial plans. It's a reminder that in finance, as in life, its often prudent to step back, assess the situation calmly, and act based on rational analysis rather than getting swept up in the moment's emotions or trends.”

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Book:Wisdom to Be Wealthy: Accelerate to the Top 1% and Create Generational Wealth Using the Family Office Blueprint
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