In a crisis, when everybody else gets very, very excited,
you have to become the calmest person in the room
so you can figure a way out of the situation.
This was Mayor Rudy Giuliani's father's advice to his son.
The mayor said that on Sept 11, his father's "voice was in my head".
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I used to be a total failure at dating. A couple of years ago I became quite successful with women (though I still was rejected part of the time) and then I became engaged. It was my initial lack of success that got me wondering what it was that made some people successful and some not.
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When I have acted in anger I have sometimes done very good things such as writing a letter to the editor, donate money to help those who are oppressed and so on. However in my personal life when I have acted in anger it has almost always caused problems. And when I have expressed myself in ... Views: 1520
Is the natural state of a human happy and if so does mental illness, which leads to depression require fuel to shift one's mood from a natural state to a depressed one? Does mental illness, like fire, need fuel to maintain itself? Could mental illness be fueled by self destructive coping ... Views: 1446
The following page shows negative aspects of different religions. I have dedicated another site to their positive aspects, http://www.mypracticalphilosophy.com/shelp/pos.htm. I do not wish to imply that all believers in these religions are bad or that they should be punished. There are good ... Views: 10045
Above all, what we as Americans prize are magic elixirs: simple solutions, closed and totalizing systems of explanation, grand schemes at once easy to understand, applicable to everything and everyone, and which thereby reduce the heart-stopping complexity of the world to a set of nostrums or ... Views: 5031