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co-author:When Your Mind Sabotages Your Dreams,From Conflict To Connection,Choosing Peace, Words That Work, What We Say Matters, & Mediate Your Life Manual

New Haven, Connecticut
Joined May 2007
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My Twitter account was hacked nine hours ago. I have deleted the tweets that were posted by the hackers. Please ignore any tweets about getting rich quick, which you may have seen in the last nine hours. They did not come for me.
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"In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a person humanized or de-humanized." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe @MediateYourLife @ChoosingPeace
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Choosing Peace: New Ways to Communicate to Reduce Stress, Create Connection, and Resolve Conflict (Mediate Your Life: A Guide to Removing Barriers to Communication, Vol. 1) by Ike Lasater & John Kinyon, with Julie Stiles and Mary Sitze @MediateYourLife
I just subscribed to Sunday Savasana Series lizzielasater.substack.com/?… This is my daughter Lizzie newsletter. From a proud father.
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While in college reading the text books felt like work. Now, at work, reading a text book feels like a small indulgence. Can't wait till working my todo list feels like a party 😂
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Boy do I get this anger.
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Since 1520, only about 85 institutions have remained continuously in existence. Around 70 are universities – few things last longer or are more resilient than universities. H/t @ani_pai
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Best guide would be to be passionate about building a business that solves other people’s problems (real or imagined)
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Always remember that if you love baking cup cakes starting a bakery will not ensure you bake cup cakes. You may bake them to start, but if you are successful you will soon be too busy managing a bakery to bake.
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Better guide is to find market mispricing between what you love and others find annoying. Although that doesn’t sound as folksy and fun.
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The problem with “scratching your own itch” as a guide to what company to start: You will end up doing something that you find annoying for every one of your customers. Other guides 👇🏻
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Play, UltraLearning and Preparing for the End mileslasater.substack.com/p/…
#nprnewsnow There’s something wrong with your feed. It consistently cuts off after three or four minutes and it often cuts off in midsentence. I’m using Overcast.
POWERFUL: 📌Each marble = 1 death. 📌Each second of the video = 6 days. Let this video sink in. #COVID19 is real. And it’s about to get even worse in December. An even bigger mortality tsunami is coming. 😢
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These two May tweets will be studied for many years.
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Donald Trump can deflect and shift blame all he wants, but the hard truth is he failed to protect our nation from the worst public health and economic crisis in our lifetime.
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