It Is A Curious Paradox Of Human

If You Choose Not To Live Self-responsibly, You Count On Others To Make Up Your Default. No One Abjures Self-responsibility On A Desert Island.

Moved By A Passion They Do Not Understand For A Goal They Seldom Reach, Men And Women Are Haunted By The Vision Of A Distant Possibility That Refuses To Be Extinguished.

We Do Not Hear The Term Compassionate Applied To Business Executives Or Entrepreneurs, Certainly Not When They Are Engaged In Their Normal Work. Yet In Terms Of Results In The Measurable Form Of Jobs Created, Lives Enriched, Communities Built, Living Standards Raised, And Poverty Healed, A Handful Of Capitalists Has Done Infinitely More For Mankind Than All The Self-serving Politicians, Academics, Social Workers, And Religionists Who March Under The Banner Of Compassion.

The Practice Of Assertiveness: Being Authentic In Our Dealings With Others; Treating Our Values And Persons With Decent Respect In Social Contexts; Refusing To Fake The Reality Of Who We Are Or What We Esteem In Order To Avoid Disapproval; The Willingness To Stand Up For Ourselves And Our Ideas In Appropriate Ways In Appropriate Contexts.

Every Day, It's Important To Ask And Answer These Questions: "what's Good In My Life?" And "what Needs To Be Done?"