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Today's poem is Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress. In the midst of these sexual allegations and confessions we should as men and women take a step back and remember that words must serve as the basis of seduction. Not Power, Cars, Cash, Clothes and Casa. Men should use words to persuade a woman to sleep with them. The best purveyor of words are the poets. How, then, do great poets go about trying to get laid.Listen in.

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We all know the story "The Emperor's New Clothes." It's meant to illustrate the vanity of human desires and the problem with excessive pride. In our daily lives we may experience a moment when we realize our boss or, heaven forbid, we are not wearing any clothes. We believe something that isn't real. We believe the idea for a new business marketing plan is great, but it's really a waste of time. We believe that perfect couple is perfect, merely from a social media post. We know the truth. But no one wants to admit it. Children will. Children can be uncomfortably truthful (the younger the more so). Why does it take a child to point out how obviously nude the emperor is? And how can we nurture that independent thinking, truthfulness, and connection to reality as a child matures and becomes more socialized?That's the subject of our conversation today. Jesse McCarthy, author of the upcoming book Montessori Education, is an expert in child development. He received his B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his Montessori teacher's diploma for 3- to 6-year-olds from the Montessori Institute of San Diego (MISD). Jesse has worked with thousands of children, teachers, and parents through the years, as an elementary & junior-high school teacher, as a Head of School overseeing programs for infants to 8th graders, and as an executive helping to lead a group of over a dozen Montessori schools.Listen in as we converse with the verse in this (my favorite so far) podcast episode: The Emperor's New Clothes.

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How will you be remembered? Men like Paul Revere and Gary Vaynerchuk understand the importance of legacy, because they understand the power of TIME. Time will take us all eventually. By experiencing the ravishes of time, as one would experience a war, we can better come to order our daily lives, now. But first you must answer the question. Are you pursuing a legacy or prestige?

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Have you ever believed yourself to be SOOOO right only to find out you were SOOOO wrong. Then you're a cookie thief.Sean Doherty is worried about Cookie Thieves and you should be too! Sean's the Business Development manager for a major fashion brand in Hong Kong (68).Listen to a modern poem about how oblivious we can be about how wrong we are. And then listen as Sean and I converse with the verse.

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Why does the best selling book on how to build wealth have numerous poems in it?Wherever you start in life, you have the power to program your subconscious mind, according to Hill. But what he doesn't explain is how you can do that.In this episode, I converse with the verse by Walter Winkle "If you Think You Are Beaten," which is included in chapter 3 of Hill's book. And I explain HOW you can program your own subconscious mind through auto-suggestion.

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Rich people need love too.It's routine today to belittle "white people problems," but problems are experienced as an individual not global phenomena. Every single human being is important, no matter their color or upbringing.In this poem, my friend and Founder of Deep Drilling Insights, Donovan Schafer converse with this verse by Robinson, and bring up topics such as suicide, white privilege, and the tide of history.

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Poe writes about the haunting side of dreams, but he rarely calls them nightmares. Do all dreams carry within them the potential for nightmares?

In this Poe piece, we experience the emotion of loss. To lose a loved one. Not just any love, but a love that was more than love.

Imagine if you will being in love as a teenager. The intensity of it. Now imagine if you will losing that person right at the height of that emotional intensity. How would that feel? What would that look like?

Poe shows us.

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Gary Vee was not the first man to spout a love of the hustle. In fact, 100 years ago was a man named Berton Braley, who was dubbed "The Minstrel of Business," He, too expressed in poetic terms Gary' Vees philosophee in "The Joy of Life.enJOY.

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In this conversation Poe explains to us the positive value of negative emotions. Anyone ever tell you "be happier," or "Be more positive," right in the moment when you were frustrated, angry, annoyed, sad? In our culture we have a tendency to teach our friends and children to "bear and forebear" (as the stoics say). When we should wallow and understand.I'd be willing to bet that the parts of your life where you have grown the most are not happy moments. They are moments of sadness, confusion, tragedy, frustration.Of course, Poe puts it much more eloquently.

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We're always told to dream, but what if that dream leads you nowhere? What if you are forever chasing a pipe-dream? In this poem for people who hate poetry we converse with a verse by Poe, and we can hear that maybe dreams that fail aren't so bad after all.