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Successful People: Arrogant or Something Else?

Most successful people started out like most ordinary people. Most of them do not act arrogantly, and many are probably “nice by default”. You go about your day, making your bed (or not), getting along with people (or not), and generally go with the flow of society (or your particular social bubble). One day, or [...]

How Arrogance Nullifies Achievements and Talents

Why does being bigheaded nullify all your achievements and/or talents? [this was a question on Quora] Being big-headed nullifies all your achievements and talents because you are openly showing how small-minded you actually are when it comes to qualities that are independent from talent and achievement that human beings in general care about quite a [...]

Life, Uninterrupted

If you asked me what you can do to really live before you die, I’m not going to tell you to start taking skydiving lessons or go bungee jumping (although if you want, you can do these things). Instead, I’ll say: Love someone so deeply that you genuinely believe that you will die (or at [...]

There is a Special Kind of Hell for That

In my memoir, The Youngest Light, I’d written about a guidance counselor who had relentlessly tried to reach me when I was a troubled adolescence, completely suspicious of all adults, and dead-set on resisting any offers of kindness I would receive from any adult. I went to 4 high schools for each of the 4 [...]

Motivational Speakers: Do We, or Don’t We Need Them?

Here’s a “point, counterpoint” on motivational speakers, inspired by a question I answered on Quora, “Why are So Many Motivational Speakers Frauds?”