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Month: September 2022

Are You Underdressed?

Are You Underdressed?

Successful people from all walks of life tend to be adept communicators.  The best of these learn to stir the emotions as well as the intellect.  They become skillful at simplifying complex ideas through storytelling.  These stories tap into common experiences from everyday life that establish instantaneous connection with others and serve to highlight or illustrate main ideas.   Abraham Lincoln is an acknowledged past master, as was humorist Will Rogers.  Examples abound among prominent writers, politicians, entertainers, and teachers—especially teachers.  In this category, none is so…

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Nightmares In The Daytime

Nightmares In The Daytime

As a child I suffered from occasional nightmares.  And for a period of time after each, I’d be anxious about falling asleep, for fear of having another.  This was not a clinical condition, but an experience common among children of a certain age.  I’m talking garden variety, “there’s a monster under my bed”-type stuff.  Problems, worries, a scary film, an encounter with a barking dog that suddenly lunges, all can manifest themselves in the visions produced in the subconscious, as we sleep. These nocturnal…

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