Lovers & Haters
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Don’t hate the haters. They’re confirmation that what you’re doing has real merit. Their rabid rancor is the result of the compelling communication of your content…
Category Archives: Communications
Where commYOUnication skills and psychology collide. What everyone believes they’re good at; what few actually are. Distinctions, insights, & strategies to improve your communications and your interactions.
Also, the social psychological principles of persuasion, influence, and communication affecting all forms of marketing. Topics on the art and science of influencing others and inducing beliefs and behaviors. Presenting social strategies to best navigate and participate in the inevitable manipulation and politics present in most social situations.
Three-Sixty-Self
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Hard truth: People are self-centered more than they’re not. Everyone’s favorite subject is themselves; whether they admit it or not. **Think about it: you’re thinking about you and yours, much more than anyone or anything else, the majority of the time. Your day, your job, your money, your family, your friends, your food, your plans, […]
“Human Relations”… not-so-common-sense
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For years, I taught a college course called “Human Relations.” It was always my favorite class to teach because the content blended principles of communication and psychology, and was the inspiration for many of my Communichology™ concepts going forward. The course was often misunderstood at the outset by both students AND staff because the title is so […]
Eighty-Five
major minors...
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Majoring in the minors; Minoring in the majors. It happens everywhere, much of the time. This is when people spend inordinate amounts of time focusing on stuff that matters least, at the expense of the stuff that matters most.
Eighty-Four
factual opinions...
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84 There’s a lot of talk out there. A lot of noise. A lot of non-sensical bullshit being spewed by pseudo-intellects (or lower) attempting to disguise their opinions as facts. If that’s you, knock that shit off. Don’t confuse your strong feelings or personal certainty about some things as facts. Have the balls to admit that YOUR […]
Eighty-Two
decorum...
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82 In an impressive and heartfelt TED-Talk given on the price of shame and public humiliation, the notorious Monica Lewinsky says “the internet is the super highway for the Id” (as in Freud’s Id, Ego, & Superego personality structures). A very astute observation from arguably the most well-known, unknown of all time. The internet and social […]
Radio Show, Ready or Not
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How the hell did I go from working as a DJ on a country music radio station, to getting my own rock ‘n roll-type talk radio show on the air in just a few months, and what’s to learn from that (i.e. why should you care…)? Listen here >> Stay tuned-in…