What do you know that others think is untrue?
A few days ago I read a fascinating cover story in Fast Company magazine on Peter Thiel. Peter is a billionaire investor who co-founded PayPal, which was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Since then he was one of the early investors in Facebook; he later invested in LinkedIn, Spotify, SpaceX and Airbnb. He obviously has a knack for determining what makes a successful company. So when I found out he had written a book, Zero to One, I ordered it immediately and read it in one day. I learned a lot about what it takes to grow [...]
Are they really stupid?
Rare is the day when we don’t think that someone’s behavior or emotional reaction makes absolutely no sense at all. One day it might be a government official, another day it could be a loved one. In these situations there is always the unstated assumption that they are seeing the same reality I am seeing. And their response to the reality I am seeing is either crazy or stupid. In fact, I contend that almost always there are at least two very different “realities” involved here: one for you and a totally different one for the other person. There also [...]
A Tool For Resolving Conflict
“Amazing!! You must do it in Hebrew and Arabic!!! It will change the condition in all the Middle East.” This is one of my favorite comments written on my blog. It’s from Yair, someone in Israel who wrote it after using our free belief-elimination process. Yair obviously saw how the principles of the Lefkoe Belief Process could be useful in resolving the Middle East (or any other) conflict. For years I’ve wanted the opportunity to help in that situation by using a variation of the Lefkoe Belief Process. Here’s what I’d do. First, I would get representatives from all the [...]
