Want to gain someone’s lifelong respect? Become his cheerleader and plant seeds of hope with that person regularly.

Building emotional equity and making deposits at the emotional bank account will allow you to be successful in dealing with people. There are some ways and techniques for making deposits into people’s emotional bank accounts - and how to replenish them when you run into disagreements, conflict and flat-out confrontation.

I used to act. Yes, back in junior college. Played the humorous female comedian whose main job was to ensure the tension from the intense drama of previous scenes was broken.

But most important thing was to ensure the play reconnected back to the audience. It was almost a 3-hour long drama (interspersed with singing and dancing ala’ Bollywood) so the risk of alienating the audience was possible. So breaking the 4th wall, outrageous stunts and NC-16 jokes galore.