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.
If you learn anything from the current Republican primary – let it be this. Fighting back against a bully really doesn’t work. Rubio and Jeb! are proof of that.
The technique to get a bully to stop is easy to teach. What isn’t easy? Making sure you repeat it enough times to make the bullying actually stop. So – …
Every time I give a talk I’m asked whether I’m victim blaming by telling victims of bullying how to get their bully to stop. No. I’m not victim blaming. I’m …