Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
One of Elon Musk’s brilliant true believers was fired about a month ago. Did he make a big mistake? Did he blow up a rocket? Was he the designer of Elon’s Cybertruck? Was he the primary point of contact between Elon and President Trump? Why was he fired? Sulaiman Ghori was fired because he was…
This video focuses on the great similarities between the two brothers, but politics divides and conquers their families. Interestingly, these two brothers think and behave similarly. They have similar values and responses to political and economic events. However, since the choices in American politics are largely binary, it is easy for two very similar brothers…
This short video is the last in a series about how Americans react to obvious, provable deception, lies, and gaslighting by politicians and others. This video summarizes the many mind games we all play on others and ourselves. While these games are hardwired into our brains, they can become debilitating and ruinous if we, individually…
The mind games we all play that distort reality are almost limitless. While many of the most prominent mind games have been discussed in previous videos, this one contains a short list of the minor games. These deceptive games that we play on others and ourselves are not mutually exclusive. Most reinforce one or several…
This video explores how easy it is for people to act in roles and follow scripts. This is an easy way for a person’s perception of the world to be shaped. An actor in a drama can play a villain in a movie but be the nicest person in real life. The opposite can also…
This short video is the sixth in a series of videos about how Americans react to obvious, provable deception, lies, and gaslighting by politicians. The quotation attributed to the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan was “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” This belief might have been false…
Although we normally associate “Ruh Roh” with the cartoon series Scooby-Doo, the dog on The Jetsons was the first to utter this famous phrase of surprise. While many Democrats said or thought “ruh roh” when Biden initially announced he would run for a second term, many Trump soybean farmers in the Midwest are now quietly…
This short video introduces a series of videos about how Americans react to obvious, provable deception, lies, and gaslighting by politicians. The quotation attributed to the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan was “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” This belief might have been false in 1973, but…
We have misinformation and disinformation; the difference is that the first is simply an innocent mistake, while the second is a deliberate act to deceive, manipulate, or harm. Although not widely used, we also have mismanagement and dismanagement. We’ve all worked in organizations mismanaged by unprepared or lazy managers—dismanagement parallels disinformation. Dismanagement is the deliberate…
By popular demand, this video has been made public. There are over a dozen videos planned to focus on the 2026 elections. The primary focus will be the whys and hows of voting decision-making, not on parties or candidates. While parties and candidates will be mentioned, the intent is not to be mindlessly partisan but to put American…