miWisdom today… When people go through periods of great difficulty in their lives, we naturally have a tendency to try and assist them through their problems by providing them with techniques and strategies that we believe will help them overcome their challenges. Is this really the right and just way to go about assisting a person [...]
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The Perils of Giving Advice to the Ones you Love
Posted in Adversity, Assistance, Challenges, Children, Family, Influence, Questions, Teaching, Transformation on October 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Jellybean Principle – Overestimation… The Habit of Disappointment
Posted in Foresight, Perspective, Questions, Universal Laws on October 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
miWisdom today… The vast majority of people have a natural tendency to overestimate their time, work, energy, decisions and actions. This is known as the Jellybean principle, which is the act of being incapable of estimating correctly how many colored Jellybeans are in the jar.
Back in high school there was always someone organizing a Jellybean counting competition of some [...]
The Subtle Approach – Subduing Anger & Resistance
Posted in Assistance, Children, Communication, Ego, Influence, Questions, Relationships on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
miWisdom today… Getting angry or upset at others doesn’t normally work to one’s favour, as it creates resistance and throws the other person against you. Not only does the other person now see you as the enemy, they also completely resist what you have to say no matter how much logical sense your argument may [...]
When Opportunity Turns to Disaster
Posted in Decisions, Foresight, Learning, Mistakes, Opportunity, Questions on September 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
miWisdom today… What looks like an opportunity on the surface to progress your life forward may in fact turn out to be a terrible mistake because of a simple yet noticeable oversight. One must therefore learn to always be extremely vigilant, to take into account all possibilities, and to develop the necessary foresight to [...]
Only the tip of the Iceberg
Posted in Insight, Questions, Understanding on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
miWisdom today… How something is written and what it intrinsically means can be at two opposite ends of the pole. Therefore, to sometimes make sense of the obvious one must dig a little deeper and question the content of the material from different angles and perspectives.
What is the surface meaning of this writing?
What was the [...]
The Art of the Question
Posted in Communication, Influence, Management, Questions, Relationships, Respect on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
miWisdom today… One must watch one’s words and requests that one makes of others. People simply do not like being told what to do. The best approach is rather to ask questions of the other person, and gently lead them to the answers that you would like them to find for themselves. Of course these [...]
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