Question: Are there any ways to influence a valuable but irresponsible employee to motivate him?

Answer: I do not see how an employee can be valuable if he is irresponsible.

Remark: Valuable means that he has good knowledge.

Answer: We will not be able to use his knowledge if he is irresponsible. First of all, responsibility is necessary when a person correctly, purposefully, and clearly responds to the tasks that are set before him.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 8/28/20

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Comment: Unity is one of the most basic principles of communication. It inspires people to connect but against someone else.

My Response: Naturally, otherwise people have no reason to connect with anyone. This is a false unity that plans in advance to destroy someone in order to raise themselves.

Question: I know from experience that it is very difficult to explain the purpose of connection to people if it is not against someone. But for whom?

Answer: For the connection itself, because it represents the highest value. In the connection itself lies the highest value.
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From KabTv’s “Communication Skills” 09/11/2020

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Question: Is it right to say that mutual guarantee is a basic form of communication?

Answer: Mutual guarantee is the ultimate form of proper communication when we achieve a one-for-all and all-for-one relationship.

Comment: But you said that the final form is love.

My Response: This is when you can call it love. After all, to be connected to each other in such a way as to feel what the other person lacks and provide it for him is love.

Comment: In one of your books you wrote that the mutual guarantee frees everyone from any worries.

My Response: Mutual guarantee is necessary in order to take care of others. Everyone needs to be sure that they are being taken care of by others. Otherwise, they will have to break away from caring for others and think about themselves.

Therefore, society should be built in such a way that everyone thinks about each other. This is the reverse form of pure egoism.

Question: But still, a person must take care of himself to a necessary extent, right?

Answer: No. Why should he? He is in a society that thinks about each and everyone. And he also takes care of each and everyone, and in no way of himself.

He makes what is called a restriction (Tzimtzum) on himself: let the others think of me and I will think of others. In this state, we are completely connected to each other, included in each other, and achieve an absolutely integral state.

Question: Do you mean to say that, just as a few million years ago, nature combined cells into a complex organism, so it will force us into such an ideal state? It’s hard to imagine what you’re talking about right now. It’s not even a utopia.

Answer: This is the completely real, correct state of individual living organisms.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 11/15/20

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Question: For a religious person, the greatest motivation comes from faith. What can you offer a secular man?

Answer: A secular person can be offered knowledge instead of faith, then he will understand the highest construct of nature, called the Creator and not just believe what he was told.

Question: But why is there enough faith in the upper force in religion and not in secular people? You are speaking now, but I do not have faith in it.

Answer: Because we have outgrown this state. We cannot live only by what we are told.

Question: Is it much more difficult for secular people?

Answer: Of course.

Question: If I were religious, I would just believe your words and know how to proceed for the rest of my life. And here you are telling me, and I don’t know, maybe you are right, maybe not.

Answer: Absolutely. So you need to discover it.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 8/28/20

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Question: Is there such a thing as freedom from oneself?

Answer: Yes. If you accept the law of nature, the law of the integral development of society, then you disconnect from yourself, rise above yourself, and build another self.

Comment: You said that nature gives man freedom to act, but if one does not use it, some other law is activated, which leads man to the same goal of creation but through suffering and blows.

Answer: Naturally. We apply this both to the upbringing of children and to society. That is, whenever good incentives fail, punishment kicks in. In any case, the goal must be achieved.

Question: If suddenly this law, which leads us by blows, is activated, then there is no free choice?

Answer: Usually this law is activated with no recourse. We must try to go along with it as quickly as possible.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 11/12/20

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes in his article “The Peace“: We need not excessively examine the Mitzva (singular for Mitzvot) of reception, since the punishment is carried out immediately, which prevents any neglect.”

What is this about? Indeed, in reality, we do not observe those who receive being punished by nature.

Answer: The fact that we do not see punishments and rewards does not mean anything. In nature, everything is created in such a way that both punishment and reward follow immediately, they simply are not revealed to us.

Question: You mean to say that people who receive more than they give and use others are getting punished by nature, but we do not see this. What is their punishment then?

Answer: In our world we see everything the other way around. “The righteous suffer, the wicked prosper” (Masechet Berakhot, 7a, 25) People who rudely use this world and exploit others are envied by everyone because we do not see the big picture. You can’t do anything here.

Everything is measured relative to the highest goal, which we do not yet understand, do not see, and do not approve of, i.e., regarding the unification of absolutely everyone into one single system. This is exactly the state that is lost by people who are using everything for themselves.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 8/21/20

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Question: How appropriate is the carrot and stick principle in an integral approach to motivation?

Answer: We see that nature constantly uses this principle. It doesn’t ask us, it just pushes us and that’s it.

Question: Do you think the carrot and stick method is acceptable at work, in society?

Answer: Yes. In any case, we only understand either the carrot or the stick. Nature and society cannot affect us in any other way because we clearly perceive only reward and punishment. The difference is in their shape.

Question: What are the features of Kabbalistic motivation?

Answer: This is a completely different level, when we rise above reward and punishment, i.e., above knowledge, and go only by the power of bestowal, love, and without any egoistic motives. It opens up completely different spaces, different circumstances. This is called faith above reason.

Question: Where does a person draw energy from if there are no egoistic motives?

Answer: From above. Our nature has a very interesting, I would say unique source of energy that can provide a person with unearthly, unselfish motivation, and the person will do the job.

The science of Kabbalah has a method for getting the energy and motivation that we cannot feel with our senses.

Question: Do you think it’s easier to motivate children than adults?

Answer: Of course, because children are attracted to certain, specific items, objects, and rewards. So they are easy to manipulate. Adults are much more difficult. And the most difficult thing is to train an adult to manipulate himself.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 8/28/20

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Comment: Humanity is divided into those who wear masks and those who do not. We are interested in those who wear masks.

Psychologists say that if a newborn child grows up and sees mother and father in masks all the time (i.e., the lower part of their faces are covered all the time, and the child hears sounds, does not see the lips, and sees only the eyes), then he may develop abilities that are still unknown to humanity.

My Response: Yes. He will have to make up for what he does not see in his mother and father. However, this is not normal because this is not in our nature. Our nature is when mother kisses, mother hugs, mother whispers, and the child grabs mother’s lips and mouth.

Question: Does something change in the mother and father when they cover part of their face and communicate with the child?

Answer: Of course. To be unable to touch the baby with your lips! Lips are everything. Lips are the most important part of the mother. This is the organ of communication where sounds and warmth come from.

Question: Are we now depriving the child of this warmth?

Answer: Of course. What can we do if we are such egoists, if we pass on the egoism gene to each other?

Question: But mother should not take off her mask yet?

Answer: Obviously. After all, a mother is in contact with many other people, and therefore can bring anything to her child.

Comment: Psychologists say that anxiety and fatigue in society is also caused by restriction in communication since masks cover most of the face and we do not see others smiling.

My Response: This is also true. But it serves you right, since you oppose each other so much. It is right that you see half a face that does not express anything.

It was a false smile, and therefore it disappeared. The coronavirus took it away. Now, if you want to see another person’s face, you have to see the correct face that matches their correct intention. If you do this, you will receive faces without masks.

Question: Will the smile come back when we begin smiling to each other internally?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Comment: Psychologists say that we were ready for word-of-mouth communication and not ready for eye-to-eye communication, not ready for this reality.

My Response: That’s right. It is because our mouths speak such nonsense, such lies! Look at all these politicians, at anyone at all. Better to be silent and close their mouths. And the eyes may be harder to hide. Eyes are connected to deeper layers of the soul.

Question: What is “eye-to-eye?” What can one hide here?

Answer: This is a deeper contact.

Question: What qualities will develop in us after wearing masks? What do you think?

Answer: We will become more sensitive to each other. We will start looking at each other more closely. We will start talking less. We will begin to give more importance to words, to actions, to the fact that we are allowed to be in contact with each other.

Question: Will our every word be thought over?

Answer: Yes!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/2/20

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Remark: There are several models of behavior in society that were described thousands of years ago. For example, some societies live by the law of “what is mine is mine, what is yours is yours.” This is peculiar to the American dream.

My Comment: This is considered the worst trait—the Sodomite rule. There is nothing worse than this.

This path is vicious, and the Creator (nature) does not agree with it and destroys this movement. If Americans remain at the level of “what is mine is mine, what is yours is yours,” they will simply drive themselves to a dead end.

Even the state of “what is mine is mine and what is yours is mine,” which is considered the condition of a criminal, is much better than this because it does not cancel communication between people: I take from you, you take from me, we are still in some kind of connection.

There is also the state of “what is mine is yours and what is yours is yours,” which is the law of complete bestowal. This is the state of an absolute righteous who does everything for others. He is ready to be a member of a right society and sets a good example for others.

This is what human society should come to in the future.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 8/21/20

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Question: What prevents us from achieving the purpose of life?

Answer: Our egoism, whose main characteristic is laziness.

Question: Is it necessary to discuss the meaning of life and the purpose of life with other people?

Answer: Why shouldn’t one?! After all, our goal is one and in common. There is no secret in it. It should really be discussed everywhere and with everyone.

Question: Should each person’s goal in life be personal or only collective?

Answer: It is personal for the sake of being accommodated to the collective.

Question: How much does my purpose depend on others in a society of those who are searching for it?

Answer: We can and must help one another, otherwise we cannot advance quickly.

Question: Do you agree with the assertion: “The meaning of life is to find the meaning of life”?

Answer: Yes, I do.

Question: What is your purpose in life and have you attained it?

Answer: I am trying to attain it.

Question: What are your plans for the coming year, for the coming month, and for today?

Answer: I am trying to achieve the impossible so that it will be possible.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 7/2/20

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