Conspiracy theories thrive within groups who feel that they don’t have control over their lives.

If you had no emotions, no feelings, no needs, then there would never be a reason to do anything.

Each blind man has a grip on one aspect of reality, but none of them holds the whole truth. Each man’s picture of the elephant is constrained by the boundaries of his own experience.

One of the reasons unsafe places tend to feed rumor and gossip is that people are trying to fill that need for safety in a place where it doesn’t exist for them.

It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission, but you probably don’t need either one.

Liminal thinking is the art of creating change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs.

The change can succeed, of course, or the change can fail. But there’s also often an in-between kind of ending. You made some progress, but you didn’t get everything you wanted. Or the situation changed, and it got better in a different way than you intended. Progress, but not perfection. That’s what happens with change efforts, one of those three

If you give people facts without a story, they will explain it within their existing belief system. The best way to promote a new or different belief is not with facts, but with a story.

Many theories people have about other people are like horoscopes. They are not falsifiable theories, but self-fulfilling prophecies that can never be disproven.