"It's called Death Therapy, Bob"
Posted on 12/19/2016 3:47:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I am not a Trump supporter, to say the least. And I don’t agree with most of his policies and rhetoric. That being said, as an entrepreneur and researcher on the subject of fear and rejection, I see all people through the lens of their relationship with rejection.
As a result, I found Trump's candidacy fascinating. In my newly published TED talk on rejection, I discussed this phenomenon: that the people who changed the world, against overwhelming odds, were not the people who avoided rejection, but those who embraced it and used it as their power.
Unfortunately, the power of rejection is an amoral power. It was used by my personal heroes such as Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but also by ruthless dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
In the case of Donald Trump, it’s too early to predict how his presidency will unfold, but one thing was clear -- Trump understood and used the power of rejection better than all of his opponents. Here are three major reasons why.
1. Trump actively sought rejection to build his tribe and jumpstart his campaign. Most politicians run away from rejection. During the primaries, Trump’s traditional and well-funded opponents such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio read roundly crafted speeches, used carefully assembled focus groups, and avoided controversies and rejections like plagues. As a result, we ended up with polished yet robotic candidates trying to appease to everyone....
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Hitler and Stalin were no Trump’s. Just keep trying to assign your theory like the climate warriors.
I haven’t watched Fox for sometime. . . I haven’t been able to find my remote. Is this guy. . .I thought it might be a girl by the name so I checked. . .a regular on Fox? If so, I haven’t been missing anything.
liberal drivel
Trump won because the democratic party hates the majority of Americans and enough of them saw this and voted Trump for his pro American policies
Hillary brought nothing to the table
i happen to have THE 5 on in the study to catch up on the Berlin terrorist attack. Juan looked like he was constipated and ready to cry.
i have a serious question. given no votes where changed by “the Russian hack” what is the big deal? every country does it. the DNC and HRC had crappy computer security and the truth came out. how is this different than international news and LSM lying to change possible voters?
Read it again. He didn’t say Trump was Hitler or Stalin.
“I’m no fan of Trump.” I don’t need to go any further.
Someone has to be slavishly pro-Trump for you to read their thoughts? That must limit the information you receive.
We will be hearing ‘hitler’ a lo these next 4 ...8? Years.. 12?...16? If Pence takes the torch?
This is an infomercial. The author:
Jia Jiang (fox byline)
Jia Jiang is an author, TED speaker and entrepreneur. He is the owner of Rejection Therapy, and the CEO of Wuju Learning. He teaches people and trains organizations to become fearless through rejection training.
One notes that progressives never self-identify with oppression; it's always the sort of social justice that consists of oppressing somebody in return, hence morally sanctioned. We mock "it isn't fascism when we do it" but that is a perfectly cogent statement of that attitude.
Hence a massive blind spot for the resentment that they have earned. The other fellow has no right to feel that way and so it has to be something else. He - shall we name white males with no college education as the current subjects of this abuse? - he is stupid, unjust, a suitable focus for all the country's wrongs. Of course, he votes. At least for now.
There is no analysis here, only a clever reframing of the question such that only one answer is possible, which is the inadequacy of the opponent. Hillary's team was full of these tale-spinners and it cost her dearly.
>>I see all people through the lens of their relationship with rejection.<<
I reject that lens.
It is like EVERY SINGLE LEAD CHARACTER IN EVERY TV SHOW IN PRIME-TIME has a problem with his/her father (always) and/or mother (usually).
“In my newly published TED talk on rejection”
Oh just shut up, Jib Jang.
Gee, sounds like a salesman for his product...
Trump had to be rejected by the establishment as an anti-establishment candidate.
Anti-establishmentarianism is not always the right course.
Have fun. Too limiting for me.
Scott Adams put it much better, when he said that Trump owns the downside of his decisions better than any politician.
"It's called Death Therapy, Bob"
> This is an infomercial
When your only tool is a hammer, pretty soon every problem starts looking like a nail.
Oh, I understand that but he peddling his theory that rejection-ism is what propelled each of the four he named. I could peddle a theory that because Hitler breathed air he was the same as Obama in similar shoes. That’s all.
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