David Horne

Talking about emotions won’t compel a reader to feel those emotions. “He felt sad” won ‘t make a reader feel sad. Instead, the reader must be made to feel the situations in the story, to experience what the characters experience, and as a result, just as a sequence creates emotion in the characters, it will also do the same in the reader. This is a

There are fill-in-the-blank labels that can be used in nearly every situation to extract information from your counterpart, or defuse an accusation: It seems like _________ is valuable to you. It seems like you don’t like _________. It seems like you value __________. It seems like _________ makes it easier. It seems like you’re reluctant to

”As nothing is more easy than to think,” says Thomas Traherne, ”so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”

knowing what it’s going to eat. Every day, it finds food. The lion isn’t worried—it just does what it needs to do. Somewhere else, in a zoo, a caged lion sits around every day and waits for a zookeeper. The lion is comfortable. It gets to relax. It’s not worried much, either. Both of these animals are lions. Only one is a king.

In contemporary society, our adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds.

~Richard Foster

How much do they value winning compared to playing? 2. Can your child earn playing time? 3. How important is a balance between academics and athletics? 4. What is the level of commitment between academics and athletics? (Every school varies.) 5. Did they enjoy the feel of the program and underclass members of the team, not just the seniors? 6. How

At the back end, patient investing means no arbitrary timeline to sell and high opportunity costs. Proper patience isn’t necessarily holding forever, but instead applies flexibility – saying you’ll never sell is a form of pride, because there are great reasons, helpful reasons, kind reasons to exit an investment. However, not being a forced seller

The goal is to identify what your counterparts actually need (monetarily, emotionally, or otherwise) and get them feeling safe enough to talk and talk and talk some more about what they want.

What we remove is as important as what we add. It isn't just the ideas that get the work done.