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2008

May

• Still here - kinda, sorta

April

• Will you answer one question for me?

March

• Back to basics

• A Crooked Tweet Sampler

• The Way and the What

• Why we rarely finish what we start

• Spin - it isn’t just for liars anymore.

• A couple of things before you go

• The Power of Enemies - A Thought Experiment

• I take it back

• The truth will set you free, but only if you hold it right

• Me and Twitter

• It’s only a matter of time

• The Elmo Standard

• Put two together and watch what happens

February

• Derailed.  Again.

• Marketing test - any takers?

• The Missing Wink

• Pop quiz

• Book recommendation: Sissy Nation

• Learn from my mistakes

• Some thoughts on hope, fantasy, and obsession

• How to silence the opposition without really trying

• Obama blows nose.  Crowd goes wild.

• Where do you draw the line?

January

• New look, new slogan

2007

December

• Talking Pictures

November

• I am not ignoring you

• Jeremy Dean post on happiness

• How to Lie Without Really Lying

• The fear of saying something stupid

• Penn Jillette on Glenn Beck

October

• Welcome to my Nightmare (on Grayson)

• The dark side of creating our own reality

• Don’t worry. Sell happy.

• How fake is too fake?

• Your Forbidden Keys are ready

• Forbidden Keys to Persuasion Excerpt 2

• Forbidden Keys to Persuasion Excerpt 1

September

• If you want updates on my work

• Whoever has my money, please return it

• Doing what I can for the little man

• Biting the hands that protect us

• Mr. Amazing’s Magic Rocks

• Mark Cuban can go to hell

August

• Appearances

May

• Forgiveness

• One Sentence Persuasion

• I don’t know what to think

April

• Spawn of The Secret

• I know you are but what am I?

March

• An article I just had to share

• Teleseminar on The Secret

• Nightline digs deeper into The Secret

• A silly but serious question for believers in LOA

• A reminder and a recommendation

• Critics and clowns

• What do I hate more than being interviewed? (Time Sensitive)

• Which is it, Oprah?

• Sinking the Secret

• Somebody should tell them

• A touching article about a very funny man

• Where did they say this?

• Now this is how you write a movie review

• Monsters and Magic

• Why the turnaround?

• I told you so

• Equal time

• Some of my other projects

February

• Let me try this one more time

• Law of Extraction - the book

• The Law of Extraction Revealed

• LOA is not a law - two examples

• Somebody stop me

• Look what I just attracted

• Please shoot holes in these

• Calling John Stossel

• False alarm.  Sorry folks.

• LOA may be worse than I thought

• Do I think the Law of Attraction works?

• Not that it is any of your business

• Beyond the Law of Attraction

• The Secret attracts the wrath of Kevin Hogan

• Ferris Bueller would agree

January

• You make the call

• Help, I’m reading and I can’t look up

• A trashy little mystery

• One of my heroes is gone

2006

October

• Seth on Columbus

• What they said about you

• Robert Anton Wilson

• Pretty ugly

• You should think like I do

• A hint and an insight

• When heroes become human

September

• Pride or luck?

• An easy way to get what you want

• My secret project

• And the winners are

• Stossel on Stereotypes

• Defy the past

• When you change the way you look at things…

• The myth of moral values

• How to make people smile

• A blog about Us and Them

August

• Rush to judgment

• Changes

July

• Controversial cartoon

• Where’s Blair?

June

• The unflappable Rush Limbaugh

May

• Can life get any more distracting?

• Lazy people suck.  Lazy marketers suck more.

April

• Surprise

• True Believers

• Another reason I don’t like to drive

• Casanovas and Copywriters

• Blog, blog, blog eat blog

• The last place you look

• Why I couldn’t buy this fast enough

• Forbidden Keys to Persuasion go bye-bye

• The Trouble with Tolerance - Part 2

• Boxes, Basics and an Angry Marketer

• My wife’s so-called meatloaf

• What a little ingenuity can do

• On changing ourselves

March

• What you can learn at Wal-Mart

• A Greater Battle

• Ugly Babies

• Impaired vision

• Invisible persuasion killers

• Interesting viral linking campaign

• Behind the blog

• Want to be more persuasive?  Then stop trying.

• The effort to enlighten everyone

• Before Crooked Wisdom there was…

• Lessons from Walk the Line

• How to size people up *fast*

• Forgotten abilities

• This just in

• It’s all in your head

• An e-mail I *always* open

February

• But what if you fail?

• How dare you?

• Overworked?  Underproductive?  You’re not alone.

• What I learned today

• It doesn’t matter what we think - A quick lesson in persuasion

• First sincerity sucked.  Now responsibility does, too.

• Note to self

• Shhh…angry marketer at work

• A great one by Garfinkel

• New motto

• My cyber-brush with Gene Simmons

• It may be too late - but just in case

• Caution: Wet Paint

• Not that it’s any of your business

• Knowledge isn’t enough

• The cat’s out of the bag

• I can’t tell you - but I can tease you

January

• New look coming soon

• The worst first

• I hate it when people…

• Beware of feedback

• Don’t defame my bad name!

• Classic Crooked Wisdom

• Seth on interpersonal B.S.

• Silence Doesn’t Mean Shit

• Lunatics and Longhorns.  A Lesson in Impulse Marketing

• Here’s something else we should no longer tolerate…

• The Trouble with Tolerance

• Why I keep reading self-help books

• Riddle me this

• What Dick Clark was saying last night

• Why is it so hard to bite our tungs?

2005

December

• Move over Dr. Kervorkian

• Helping others solve problems

• The gifts we have missed

• Tip for the day

• A final peak into my most private thoughts

• The Wisdom of Dr. Steve

• Being nice is not enough

• ‘Nothing new’ is getting old

• Nice to meet you.  Want to get married?

November

• Say it ain’t so!

• A lesson from a 7-year-old persuasion master

October

• One-Sentence Persuasion Course

• Kubrick, Context and Persuasion

• People.  You gotta love ‘em.

• Cats, Kids, Cults and Katrina - A Lesson in Compliance

• How to Get Value From Books Without Reading Them

September

• Hurricane Rita

• Best persuasion book in a very long time…

• Flight From Death

• The Search for Profound Wisdom

August

• Do you want to get rich or just watch?

• Eight Ugly Truths About Human Nature

• Early Blair

• How do you know when you know?

• Science vs. Art

• You can count on this…to change

• More personal philosophy

July

• A Forbidden Answer

• More Dangerous Thoughts

• Prediction vs. Explanation

• Foolproof Steps to Power

• Filthy rich advice

• Dangerous Reading

• Why the “dark” stuff?

• A glimpse into my personal philosophy

June

• Sincerity Sucks

• Gurus good or gurus bad?

• “How to” versus “How did”

• Old wine, new bottles, no duh!

• Powerful persuasion tip (for those who can see it)

• Films for students of human nature

April

• Rushkoff to the Rescue

February

• In the presence of greatness

• Taking a break

• How to avoid being a hypocrite

• The fastest way to persuasive power

January

• Lost in the land of secrets

• Sometimes it pays to be insane

• What I’ve learned from Johnny Carson

• Popularity doesn’t equal validity

• Back up and running

• Computer trouble

• Frequently Asked Questions About The No-Nonsense Guide to Enlightenment

2004

December

• The Greedy Guru

• How we make ideas our own

• Looking back on books gone by

• Two ways to please people

• A word about originality (or the lack thereof)

• Socrates was wrong

November

• Want to find out what others want? Don’t ask them and they’ll tell you.

• When the Obvious Isn’t So Obvious

• Note regarding the quality of life

• Check out The Persuaders

• Is it worth it?

• Your license to go out and kick some butt

• My Billionaire Can Beat Up Your Billionaire

• Excerpts from The Forbidden Keys to Persuasion E-Class

• The Death of Halloween

October

• The mother of this year’s political messages

July

• Touching the Void

May

• The Ugly Truth About Honest Communication

• The Stranger in the Corner

• A rare interview with me

• Psychological Ventriloquism

• Will Time Really Tell?