zdls halbert index

A Player!

Listen, I have found my newsletters, my
speeches and my personality seem to be like a giant meat cleaver
cutting through the sea of humanity... separating those who have any
type of contact with me into two very distinct groups. One group is
made up of zestful, hard-working, risk-taking, fun-loving Players. The
other group consists of losers unable to laugh at themselves and who
are scared witless at the idea of taking risks.

Losers (those poor souls at the bottom
rungs of the Halbert Index) have a number of common characteristics:

(1)
They are generally spectators instead of players, and

(2)
They are usually critics who revel in grading people
with whom they can't compete, and

(3)
Sometimes, they have financial wealth (most often they don't)
but they are always poor in their minds, and

(4)
They get their pseudo self-esteem from the grades given to them
by others and have no innate "sense of being" nor a core of
natural integrity, and

(5)
They think they have a sense of humor but they don't, since
they can only laugh at jokes made at the expense of others and they always
fail to see the ludicrousness of much of their own endeavors, and

(6)
They often have intelligence in a technical way but almost no
ability whatsoever for true independent and innovative thought, and

(7)
They lack courage and will study and "rehearse"
endlessly but, will avoid at all costs ever letting the curtain come
up... unless... someone else has agreed to star in the play, and