Essays
The ideas, applied
Every essay is read aloud by the author. Read it, or listen.
Marshall Rosenberg's Missing Variable
Rosenberg trained himself to hear every attack as a need in disguise. Learn to listen that way and an argument stops sounding like an argument.
Jonathan Haidt's Elephant, and the Variable That Steers It
Haidt showed that reason is a small rider on a very large elephant. The rider believes he is steering, and mostly he is just explaining where the elephant already went.
Viktor Frankl and the Space Between Stimulus and Response
Frankl said there is a gap between what happens to you and how you respond. Anyone who has lost their temper knows how fast that gap can slam shut.