I loved this Michael Thompson. I noticed a lot of these had to do with preventing problems from arising in the first place by anticipating them.

Don’t want to be an irritable jerk?

Incorporate simple walks/fruit into your diet BEFORE the irritability.

Want to get more people to join your cause?

Create something they’re interested in BEFORE you tell them about it.

etc. etc.

While I was reading (and I read the whole thing before dinner) I kept thinking that I would easily read a book written by you.

Easily.