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Chris Gaither

When Reality Conflicts with Desire, We Don’t Change Our Desire, We Change What We Tell Ourselves About Reality

If you can catch someone lying to you
you can figure out what they want from you
 
If you can catch yourself lying to yourself
you can figure out your own desire
 
The former can make you rich
but the latter can only make you happy

Other works by Chris Gaither...
The 7 Folds of Highly Effective People

All self-help books boil down to this: You can’t fold a piece of paper more than 7 times but if you could fold it 103 times
A Good Prediction Doesn’t Need to Be Accurate

People don’t like surprises so I tell them they’re in for a real surprise which gives them something to look…
All You Need Is Love

The only possible form of self-awareness is knowing what you want to be true
I Used to Live in the Elbow Room; Now I Live in the Bizarro Elbow Room

If you give people enough space You’ll be amazed By their flexibility If you give people enough cyberspa… You’ll be aghast
You Know What You’re Waiting For, So What Are You Waiting For?

Time tells a story and linear time is a plot device we’ve made up, call it a time machine, to advance the plot
“A Sunday-size Puzzle with a Fun Whirlpool Shape”

You know the (re)normalization of… is in full swing when the New Yor… justifies its publication of a cro… in the shape of a swastika on the start date of Chanukah
Who Wears Short Shorts?

With the sexual revolution as with all the other belief syste… what men take as an article of faith women have to wear
“Tell Me Sweet Little Lies”

We ask people How are you doing? because it’s the easiest way to prevent them from actually telling us how they are doing
“If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter”

The crucial ingredient for random mutation to drive evolution is a surplus of time But nothing
The Play’s the Thing

I try to win but I don’t play to win; I play to play
Condemned to Freedom

Liberalism can be confused with ni… where you have to believe in nothi… or with Unitarian Universalism where you’re encouraged to believe… as much of everything as you like
The Real Status Update: No Body = A Nobody

The best way to control somebody Is to divide the mind from the bod… Because the body is where the soul…
You Know Not the Day nor the Hour but You Know the Year, or At Least the Decade

Climate change is just the latest chapter in our ever-ending story
Lying Trumps Selfishness

None of us can see further than our own noses but Pinocchio can see further than the rest of us
Let Me Do the Talking

Civilization began when a discussion group convened to debate the meaning of the phras… The less said, the better



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