Two Simple Tools To a Simple, Joyful Life

Steven Barnes
3 min readJun 13, 2022

I will talk about anything, with anyone, if they are polite. There is one discussion I won’t have PUBLICLY with certain types of people, but that’s another question.

Rudeness suggests that the person has lost emotional balance, and are attacking. Attacks are defenses. Anger is fear. I see nothing positive coming out of such interactions, so people who have become rude are invited to apologize or remove themselves from the discussion. If they cannot, then I know, right at that moment, that the conversation is “Useless.” The indicator is that they are “unkind.”…

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.