Preface
Introduction
Rule 1: Teach yourself and your students to accept biographies for what they are - a story from the past. Learn to use your biography without constantly quoting from it!
Rule 2: Linger not (only) on what is: instead, direct your attention to what has not been allowed to be, but could be!
Rule 3: Do not grieve over what is past, but participate in what is still possible!
Rule 4: Learn to examine personal values by comparing them to others!
Rule 5: Learn to share deeper thoughts, not exclusive rote learning!
Rule 6: Learn to plan life from how you want it to end!
Rule 7: Train to see situations through different eyes and avoid expected judgments!
Rule 8: Learn to see potential in others, not for confirmation of your own experience and fears!
Rule 9: Work on improving your powers of observation and the elegance of how you are perceived!
Rule 10: Be open to what at first may seem unimaginable, but what in fact is already transforming your everyday life and work.
Rule 11: Cultivate reference points for safe, correct, and proper actions in your daily routine and professional life.
Rule 12: Serve the interests of the major concerns of civilization!
Rule 13: Get to know your emotion sensor and gain control in difficult situations!
Rule 14: Understand the state of your and your students' personality development.
Rule 15: Practice planning and developing emotional competence in relationships!
Rule 16: Play "Parcheesi plus" for self-discovery and exercising alternative ego states!
Rule 17: Document the history of emotional self-examination in a portfolio of emotions!
Rule 18: Reinforce emotional competence through practice exercises!
Rule 19: Practice the art of real meta communication!
Rule 20: Cultivate a winning attitude of learning "from others"!
Rule 21: Heal yourself and your students through closeness and an appreciative non-response to suffering!
Rule 22: Build an inner "look-out" for the early detection of emotional shoals, currents, and whirlpools.
Rule 23: Find your students among the great thinkers of centuries past and maintain a dialogue with this external team!
Rule 24: Train for the championship in successful dealings with others!
Rule 25: Create occasions for supervision and feedback and routinely use what you learn!
Rule 26: Practice deliberate re-interpretation and re-sensing!
Rule 27: Uncover and interprete cognitive-emotional programs for self-examination and self-transformation!
Rule 28: Be responsible for the self-development of yourself and your students (motto: "Become who you could be!")
Rule 29: Mistrust the 28 rules and manage without them!
Conclusion: The Munchausen Syndrome: I will be who I can be!
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