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Being an Unpleasant Person Isn’t Cool
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email to a friend Ads by Google “A 50-something year old Muslim man arrived at his seat on a crowded flight and immediately didn’t want the seat. The seat was next to an elderly white woman reading her Bible. Disgusted, the Muslim man immediately summoned the flight attendant and demanded a new seat. The man said “I cannot sit here next to this infidel. The flight attendant said “Let me see if I can find another seat.” [Note: Before my Muslim friends get upset, this also could have been a…
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One Little Thing That Can Save Your Marriage
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email to a friend Ads by Google Marriages are sometimes lost on just one issue: Failing to show empathy. Sympathy and empathy are similar terms that use the same emotion which is feeling a deep concern for what someone else is going through. There is one difference in the two terms: Sympathy is a feeling of concern based on similar experiences while empathy is a feeling of concern without having experienced the same issues. Being able to read your spouse’s emotions can tell you what they are experiencing when they…
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Can Charisma be Developed?
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email to a friend- To answer the question posed by the title: Yes charisma can be taught and developed contrary to what has been believed traditionally. However, it isn’t easy and it does take time. Ads by Google “Precisely because charisma is a complex state, a gestalt state, it is not easily modeled. That’s because there’s a mixture of meta-states within charisma. Yet there are secrets of charisma. The primary secret of the attractiveness of charisma is that it emerges as a person becomes authentically real and discovers how to use his or…