What is appreciation? Is it limited to what you like?

appreciation is the ticket to heaven on earthWhat do I like about leading webinars?

Unlike other people, I don’t speak from what I know, I don’t speak from my mind.

Why this is something to like? Because every time I speak I surprise myself. I listen to what I am saying, and I am amazed, and often confronted.

Today the concept of appreciation was discussed: that “culture” makes you believe that appreciation is talking about things you like… but it is a lie.

Just like in mathematics every number has a value, zero, five, minus 15.

Appreciation is simply giving something a matching value.

Things you don’t like may have a negative number

How and why what we do here is the perfect antidote to what ISIS is trying to do?

theres-a-convincing-theory-that-goliath-not-david-was-actually-the-underdogHow and why what we do here is the perfect antidote to what ISIS is trying to do? ((Whether it was David who was the underdog, or Goliath… the picture of using wits against blind stupid force is depicted well in that story… and besides that, when I looked how to illustrate this article, David and Goliath popped up… and I trust my guidance.

I will put the book by Malcolm Gladwell, in

An Atlantic article: What does ISIS really want?

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What ISIS Really Wants

from the Atlantic

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.

What is the Islamic State?

Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comme