A Harvard neurologist once told her class something that made half the room laugh, until she showed the scans.
"People who cry easily," she said,"have a faster emotional-processing loop than the general population."
Their mirror-neuron system fires quicker, their insula lights up more intensely, and their brain decodes micro-signals before others even register them.
What looks like "sensitivity" is actually hyper-efficient pattern recognition.
Dr. Bruce Lipton drops a parenting wake-up call: Your baby is recording you like a blank tape for the first 7 years—downloading 95% of their lifelong subconscious programs from what you do, not what you say.
Kids aren't "thinking" yet—they're in a hypnosis-like theta state, absorbing every behavior, reaction, and family pattern you model unconsciously.
Classic example: Kid falls off swing → first looks to parent. Mom panics? Kid cries. Mom stays calm ("get back on")? Kid bounces up.
Lipton: "95% of the day" we're running on autopilot from our own childhood programming—so without awareness, we pass the same invisible patterns (good or bad) straight to our kids.
Your daily habits aren't just yours—they're becoming your child's default OS.
What subconscious "program" from your own childhood are you accidentally passing on—and how can you rewrite it for your kids?
“A genuinely funny person is constantly removing tension from the environment. Laughter clears accumulation. Most people carry residue everywhere. Work stress. Social slights.
Small humiliations. Unspoken resentment. It piles up. Most people can't even clear their own cognitive load.
People with strong humor operate continuous clearance around them. Someone who clears it for others does something closer to medicine than entertainment.”
Best explanation of laughter ever seen.
Many modalities - but boy does laughing seem to do something against stress.
Perhaps why Patch Adams resonated with so many.
A former tenant just called me in desperation.
He runs a small hair salon, and he says the person we sold the property to years ago has now leased the area in front of the salon to a taco truck.
His visibility is now totally blocked, business has dropped 60%, and two of his four barbers have left.
He's the nicest guy in the world, and operated at this location over 20 years.
A very unfortunate reality for retail tenants: Over 90% of strip mall owners are not professional organizations or entities with reputations to uphold.
Strip mall tenants are often (sadly), at the mercy of random individuals who may or may not fix that roof leak, adequately maintain the parking lot -- or ensure that visibly remains.
Business is the ultimate game.
Once you become good at it, almost all else pales by comparison. Yet, it can require all you have to give. Your day, your week, your year, your sanity. You hit one goal just to see another. Your problems just keep getting bigger as you get better. You win big just to get sucker punched. Old you wouldn't recognize new you.
But you won't stop... not because it's easy. But because it's hard, and worth it.
Me coming out of hibernation after ghosting everyone I ever knew & expecting things to pick up exactly where they left off while I show them I lost weight
If you really want to win, you need to focus on dedication, not drama. The dedication will lead you to outcomes, but the drama will lead you to more drama. Outcomes are finite points, drama is endless.
Buffett: "Life today is better in almost every way. You’ve got to figure that you started at a pretty lucky spot just by being born when you were. Imagine staying in some cosmic waiting room for hundreds of thousands of years and then getting dropped into the present — not bad timing. So I would focus on what’s been good in your life, rather than what’s gone wrong. Yes, bad things happen — sometimes very bad things. But life can still be wonderful."