John's Blog

Fix yourself before you try to fix the world. You may be viewing the world as broken because your life is broken.

Don’t trust people, trust incentives.

Inner circles don’t exist except you. 

You see the absurdity of educating others against their will, when you chastise elderly people.

Interrogate instead the part of you that feels the need to force change.

Where conflict exists, a desire exists to end that conflict. Energy is required to resolve such conflict, diverting presence away from what is happening, which causes the anxious splitting of awareness and creates conflict from the scattering of attention. And so the destructive cycle of conflict begins and continues.

Strategy, not tactics.

When a kid asks you something, answer truthfully.

George Washington matters because he stepped down and relinquished his power, even though many wanted him to keep it.