I give really good advice. Seriously I do. It isn't so much that I help people solve their immediate problems, it is that I help them think more clearly about their problems so that they can solve them in a way they are going to feel REALLY good about. The people I help tell me I have transformed their lives. The approach I teach is called Humanism and it has been around since, well, forever. The three main aspects of the philosophy I teach is how to make better decisions thru critical thinking. How to improve your relationships thru compassion and how to infuse your life with meaning and purpose by applying your ethics actively to all your decisions, not just the big ones.
I am the host of this website and the author of The Bully Vaccine which teaches an operant conditioning approach to the problem of bullying.
Chronic bullying is a lot like stalking. If your bully can’t get to you one way, they will try another. This is why bullying often ends up online, something we now call cyberbullying or cyber stalking.
Some bullying is spite. The person is angry or afraid and they don’t’ know how to express that emotion or they are unable to (impotent) and their emotion comes out as spiteful behavior.
Caution – this post is not appropriate for children. Every time we have a terrorist attack, our instinct is to fight back. Or rather, some people’s instinct is to fight …
We are all responsible for being professional and civil and that if a co-worker starts issuing deltas to you to get you to stop doing something they find objectionable, that you should take that as constructive criticism.