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Eric Schleien
New Hampshire
value investor | state rep | cultural architect
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Stinginess
Stinginess: Deliberately holding oneself and one’s contribution ‘close to the vest’ and without generosity. This is literally a way to destroy the people around you. You can also be stingy with how you allow others to contribute to you and you'll soon find out that creates a space for others... Continue reading
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Revenge
That quote, "The best revenge is massive success" is wrong. If you care about revenge you've already failed. The best revenge is not caring about revenge. Focus on being great with others and providing value to the world. The rest has a way of taking care of itself. Continue reading
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The Bigger You Play, The Bigger The Storms
“One misunderstanding is that if you do the right thing, then life’s storms will stop. If you do the right thing, the storms actually get bigger. This is because they know they can’t blow you down like they used to, and now it’s going to take a lot more energy... Continue reading
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How Evolved You Are
You know how evolved you are by the types of partners you're attracting. And there's no way out of that realization...So, you've chosen that kind of person. The question is, why did you need someone you didn't have to trust? You didn't have to surrender to? Why? Why are you... Continue reading
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Technique Does Not Constitute Relationship and Relationship Trumps Technique Every Time
From the time I was very little, my mother always used to instill in me that “relationships were the most important thing in life”. Like the most important thing. And you know when you think about it, it makes sense. Think about the people you feel closest to in your... Continue reading
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Creating a space for people to make powerful requests around you
If you want people to feel comfortable making powerful requests around you, don't invalidate them when they ask. When I have a sense someone is diminishing themselves around me, sometimes and often I'll flat out let them know they can make any and all requests around me and NOTHING they... Continue reading
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Cutting out the bullshit
People want to be around people with good vibes. Not positive thinking bullshit to cover crap up but authentically great vibes. Do you want to constantly be around people who are always complaining, negative about stuff, in survival about the world and their circumstance? Fuck no you don't. Sometimes people... Continue reading
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The risk of not being committed
People who are afraid of making commitment take a bigger risk than those who don't. If you're committed to not committing, your life will reflect that. More turmoil, more flakiness, just all around less effective. The more you're committed to something intentionally, the more your life works. The illusion of... Continue reading
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Being offended degrades a culture
If someone in an organization or environment gets offended by something when that person did nothing wrong and then the person who was reacted to by someone who is unwilling to take responsibility for their own emotional experience gets punished, overtime you end up degrading the communication in that environment.... Continue reading
Posted Jul 4, 2017 at Eric's Blog
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Seeing the best in people & Setting boundaries
My intention of sharing this is that I know many of you reading will be able to relate to what I am about to say. And my intention of sharing what I'm about to say is to let some of you who struggle with this know that you aren't the... Continue reading
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Control Freaks & Being a Good Partner
If you look at people who are control freaks, the one thing in common is they all have a terrible relationship to their word. Their lack of power they have to compensate with control. If you have terrible results in life, it's easy to make a change. If you have... Continue reading
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Fearful People
Fearful people attract other fearful people. Then they complain they have a scarcity of great people in their life. Want to know what someone's character is like? 1) Observe who their friends are. 2) Observe the kind of people they're in relationship with romantic and platonic. 3) Observe the people... Continue reading
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Blindspots: The wise and the fools
"Only wise people work on seeing and their blindspots to access new levels of being able to be a contribution for their loved ones. Only fools walk around pretending they don't need anyone to see their blindspots while they keep hurting those they love and not even realizing why" ~... Continue reading
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Some Charlie Munger wisdom on "Personal Responsibility"
“Whenever you think that some situation or some person is ruining your life, it’s actually you who are ruining your life. It’s such a simple idea. Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to make go through life. If you just take the attitude that however bad it... Continue reading
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True Warriors
"You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability--to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I've shown you by example that a warrior's life is not about imagined perfection or... Continue reading
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Aliveness: The Greatest Threat to the Walking Dead
People who haven't truly discovered their own magnificence will often experience those who have as arrogant or grandiose. It's quite remarkable really. The simple act of you being alive threatens their own automatic machinery. Aliveness is a threat to the walking dead. Continue reading
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Finding someone who sees everything you are and won’t let you be anything less
Your self expression is a function of the listening of others. "One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won’t let you be anything less. They see the potential of you. They see endless possibilities. And through their eyes, you... Continue reading
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The Impact of Playing Big
The bigger you play in life, the more people will be hostile to your efforts. The more straight you are with people. The more people will get upset with you and have complaints about you. Of course the payoff is you'll have much higher quality people in your life and... Continue reading
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Unreliable People Who Are Nice
Unreliable people who are slime-balls with their word are a great example of what not to do in life. If you know someone like this, get the impact and then get what the impact is on yourself and on others when you do this with others. I once met a... Continue reading
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On Apologizing For Children
On Apologizing For Children by Nisha Moodley A few minutes ago, I was walking across a crosswalk, two small children and their caregiver ahead of me. The caregiver was explaining sweetly that they needed to walk quickly, because the countdown was on. Just then, the little girl tripped and her... Continue reading
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The continuum of Givers, Matchers, and Takers
There's a continuum of Givers, Matchers, and Takers which was first modeled by a Wharton Professor named Adam Grant who wrote a book about it called “Give and Take”. 1) Takers: they're always trying to take as much as possible from a person or situation 2) Matchers: these are the... Continue reading
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One thing to never settle on: 8 questions to ask yourself
Whether it's platonic or romantic, there is one trait I would absolutely never compromise on and while I would never tell you how to live your life, I would assert when most people see the impact that their compromising on this one single thing has on their life, they'd stop... Continue reading
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One of the greatest gifts you can give another
One of the greatest gifts you can give another is the gift of giving someone the opportunity to contribute to you. Continue reading
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The Psychological Trap of Inauthentic Success
Relationships including the one to your Self (not your self/automatic machinery) trump technique every time. I first learned the psychological importance of being successful and producing results while being yourself through observing the jail people get into when they go on for years NOT doing that and how hard it... Continue reading
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Partnership/Social > Survival. Duh.
Partnership/Social > Survival. Duh. It's truly amazing how much mindset impacts the actions we take in life. For instance. I love making connections for people. This isn't to brag but I've created a lot of value for people through creating quality relationships with others. I'd say 95% of the time... Continue reading
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