Fan-favorite quotes by Dr. Robertson

– Get Your Mind Right –

Want to be successful in life? Neutralize the noise, and anchor yourself to outcomes, not activities.

– REAL Artificial Intelligence –

A.I. is flawed, not because it lacks humanity, but because it has too much. It lies, bluffs, overly-simplifies, deflects, gaslights, and confuses persuasion with accuracy. In many ways, it reflects the worst of us.

– The Adversity Nexus in Practice –

Since the turn of the millennium, we’ve seen massive technological acceleration but total cultural, philosophical, and psychological stagnation. History doesn’t treat that mix kindly. We’ve innovated everything but ourselves. So, is that progress or prelude?

– Leadership Nonsense –

Platitudes don’t create leaders!

– Great Minds –

If Edward Bernays taught us anything, it’s that great minds don’t think alike—it’s the simple minds that do. While great minds may reach similar conclusions, we must recognize that their agreement is rarely the result of emotionally-driven conformity, but rather of informed and rational processes.

– You’re Seeing What You Choose To See –

Sources matter. If you insist on drinking from a poisoned well, don’t waste everyone’s time whining about your sickness.

– The REAL You –

Your identity is not determined by your actions or career. Instead, when you live authentically, your actions and career will naturally align with who you really are.

– Self Limitations –

Thinking for yourself doesn’t mean avoiding the information you don’t like.

– Priorities –

If the left fights for Democrats and the right fights for Republicans, who fights for America?

– True Expertise –

Show me a “true expert,” and I’ll show you a perpetual student.

– Be The Change –

You don’t have to be the person you’ve been conditioned to be. In other words, who you were yesterday doesn’t have to define who you become tomorrow.

– Artificial Intelligence and Education –

A.I. won’t replace the importance of education. Education equips us with the knowledge and context necessary to ask A.I. the right questions.

– Meet Action With Action –

Understanding that mastery happens through repetition, which means progressions are had with each attempt, when a person or group attempts to destroy what you hold most precious, is it justifiable to meet action with action to protect or defend these things? Or do you allow the attempts to continue in an effort to avoid stooping to their level or avoid conflict? Understand that one guarantees destruction over time. The other requires you to become a warrior.

– Educational Irony –

It seems tremendously silly to criticize the scarcity of conservatives in academia while simultaneously dissuading conservatives from pursuing the education necessary to attain such positions.

– The Puzzle of Delusion –

The challenge with delusion is that you often don’t recognize it in yourself until you critically examine the validity of your ideas – instead of seeking information that confirms your belief. Those who are truly delusional are often convinced that others are the delusional ones, never considering that they themselves might be wrong.

– Self Limitation –

Imagine how limited you truly are when the only ideas you examine or accept are the ones that look like your own, or the ones that make you comfortable.

– Defense of Core Principles –

It may seem obvious, but history repeatedly demonstrates that people will forget this one fundamental concept: the survival of a culture is rooted in its defense.

– Be Careful What You Ask For –

If the 2000s have taught us anything so far, it’s that sometimes we get exactly what we ask for. However, they’ve also highlighted the importance of resisting the urge to ask in the first place.

– Choose Your Path Wisely –

Your pursuit to “be right” can undermine your pursuit of accuracy. Remember that there’s a big difference between defending your beliefs and seeking truth. If outcomes matter, the path you choose is crucial.

– The Importance of Strategy –

Vision is weak without resolve. Resolve is weak without strategy.

– What Will You Stand For –

Showing weakness in the face of trouble tends to invite more trouble. If you want this nonsense to stop, you’ll likely have to stop being quiet, stop taking the abuse, and just stop tolerating the intolerable. Clearly, turning the cheek, looking the other way, and ignoring the nonsense isn’t working. It’s making things worse.

– Resistance to Change –

The spoon you have may not be the knife you need.

– Improvement –

You do not improve by trying to perfect what you already do well. Instead, you improve by focusing on what needs improvement. Of course, this approach requires an intimate relationship with reality and an understanding of what is not perfect. This also means that you need to stop lying to yourself and accept constructive criticism. It is simple. Improvement is possible; perfection is not. Act accordingly.

– Idealized Leadership –

Relying on idealized versions of leadership is like trying to sail a boat in the desert.

– Historical Accuracy –

Hindsight can be misleading, because our modern biases often distort our view of historical events. Follow Jefferson’s approach: question everything with boldness. When examining history, transport yourself to the moment of those events and seek to understand the spirit and intent behind them. And rather than force or invent meaning, strive to grasp the most likely intent of the act—through the lens of those who lived it.

– Leaning Towards Risk –

Our status quo of avoiding change and failure only ensures our avoidance and failure of changing our status quo.

– Reality of Tribalism –

A tribe needs loyal individuals, but often, individuals find themselves loyal to the tribe without receiving the same loyalty in return. Therefore, it’s often wiser to redirect your loyalty toward an idea or vision. By doing so, you foster a purpose that goes beyond tribal limitations, making your loyalty more meaningful, less vulnerable, and longer-lasting.

– Dismissing Truth –

Should it alarm us that ‘investigative reporters’ are so frequently dismissed as ‘conspiracy theorists’? It’s as if challenging the official narrative and asking uncomfortable questions have become synonymous with unfounded speculation rather than being recognized as the essential components of true journalism. If transparency matters, then why is it that seeking (and finding) the truth can so easily be written off as mere conjecture?

– The Nation’s Path –

Liberty is the destination – the vision. The Declaration was the reason. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are how we get there. Just because some have screwed up the directions, scribbled on the map, and gotten themselves lost doesn’t mean the map is bad or that the destination is wrong.

– Bad Instructors –

If an instructor helps hundreds or even thousands of people do something incorrectly, it does not make them an expert. It makes them responsible.

– The Power of Vision –

If you wanted to go to Dallas but didn’t have a car, you could probably still find a way to get there if you wanted it bad enough – because you would innovate options to reach your desired destination and just keep moving towards that goal. However, if you have a car and the ability to drive it, but you have no idea where you want to go, that car just sits there. You’re going nowhere! Welcome to life and glimpse the power of having a vision. Having the car or the ability to drive is far less important than your purpose, vision, and desire to actually go somewhere. Purpose and vision. Start there.

– Words to Live By –

Think of your life, relationships, and conversations like you are cooking a meal. When you go overboard with the bitters, sour, and salt, nobody wants to swallow it.

– Ignorance –

You will only truly know the things you choose to truly examine.

– Embrace Differences –

It’s important for leaders to know and understand that we are all different and that being different is a good thing. This allows leaders to leverage different strengths to achieve optimal outcomes.

– The Cycles –

Societal evils perpetually lurk and thrive in periods of complacency. Paradoxically, they seem to fuel a heightened public awareness and prompt a necessary course correction. Like a storm, this turbulence restores the balance.

– F-Around N-Find Out –

Don’t be shocked by a negative effect when you initiate a negative cause. Wrongful deeds can trigger harsh responses. Unnecessary provocation can result in strong backlash. Negative actions can result in negative re-actions. In other words, you’re not the victim when faced with retaliation. Those confused by this very simple concept are doomed to learn a very harsh lesson.

– Learning –

It would be hard to deny the fact that intelligence wins wars. So imagine how successful you could be when you accept that earth is just a battlefield.

– Leadership –

The discipline of leadership is a science, but it’s implementation is definitely an art.

– Leadership Motivations –

A national leader who is versed in their country’s history shows a deep connection with its core principles. This understanding informs their vision, goals, choices, reasoning, authority, tactics, and, in this case, determination to ensure the integrity of those core principles. Conversely, a leader not versed in their country’s history demonstrates a detachment or a lack of regard for its core principles. This should provide insight into their vision, goals, choices, reasoning, and tactics, which are likely leading to decisions and actions that are not aligned with that nation’s identity and values.

– Having Vision –

A lack of vision solidifies fear of the future and opens the door to failure.

– The World is Not Ready –

The world is unprepared for the creativity of violence it seems to be asking for.

– Serving –

Serving others is not the same as providing a service to others.

– Collective Welfare vs. Individual Interests –

It’s a matter of statistics: no matter how noble your cause, embracing the flawed concept of ‘the greater good’ means accepting the cost of marginalizing the ‘few.’ History demonstrates that this often leads to severe ethical consequences. There’s a better way! Valuing individual rights and autonomy while pursuing collective progress ensures that no one is overlooked. This does require a unified vision, but this balanced approach fosters ethical, inclusive, and personalized progress.

– School Failure –

If you didn’t pay attention, chose not to take the class, or didn’t engage in the lesson, it wasn’t “education” that failed you.

– Irony –

The benighted misconceive enlightened cogitation and relish the unsophisticated.

– Reflection –

Time invested in learning is wasted without time invested in critical reflection.

– Examination –

An angry rejection of information without examination is nothing more than a demonstration of ignorance masked as fear.

– Teaching –

Teachers and professors are a dime a dozen and a teacher isn’t “awesome” or special simply because they teach. Anyone can get up and stifle thought and creativity by demanding conformity and reciting something out of a book. True teaching is an art form. It’s the difference between learning and simple education. An awesome teacher helps the student connect with the material, they inspire thought and creativity, they motivate critical reflection, and they help to foster an intrinsic desire to question everything. Awesome teachers and professors are rare.

– Examination –

Understand that you cannot address a problem unless you identify the problem, and you will rarely get the right answers if you’re not asking the right questions.

– Effort –

Heroic tales don’t come from those who dared to dream. They come from those who dared to try.

– Leadership –

Management is not Leadership. Leadership is not management. We must know the difference if we want to be the difference.

– Change –

Change is constant and forever. We can choose to accept it and lead it or fight it and lose.

– Failure –

It’s a mindset. Embrace failure, lean towards risk and embrace beneficial change. If you’re doing it right, there is nothing to fear but success itself.

– Personal Growth –

It seems to me that the level at which someone complains often mirrors their level of resistance to personal development.

– Equality –

You cannot advocate for equality while claiming or demanding special status or benefit for yourself.

– Writing –

Actions may speak louder than words but words provide lasting perceptions of those actions.

– Race and Gender –

There are those who define themselves by what’s between their legs and by the color of their skin, and then there are those who define themselves by what they’ve placed between their ears and what kind of character they have made for themselves. So ask yourself: would you rather be defined by something you inherited or something you earned? Pareto was right; not everyone gets to be great. Choose carefully.

– Improvement – 

Some choose to judge me based on my early works. That’s fine. My writing skills used to be, well, not exactly award-winning. Sentence mishaps, passive tone, and grammar blunders were a constant for my readers. But you know what? I never let that imperfection stop me from putting my ideas out there. And sure, I may have been a ‘grammar’s worst nightmare,’ but at least I tried to make a difference! Today, I’m only a slightly better writer than I used to be, and I’m only sort of sorry for the trail of errors that I have left in my wake. However, I see it as a public demonstration and an example of continual improvement. Mastery happens through repetition, and I will continue to improve. However, as imperfect as it all may have been, my writing still managed to stir some minds. I’ll take it!

– Friendship – 

We should be careful about who we call friend. I think that by calling those who are not, that which is cherished most, we dilute the meaning and its impact

– Communication –

Never underestimate the destructive power that a lack of context or a simple misunderstanding can really have.

– Teaching –

“WOW Moments” invite the student to connect with the lesson.

– Opportunity –

Opportunity only happens when you give opportunity an opportunity.

– Social Divide – 

We don’t have to agree to get along. I believe that most racial, social, or even theological divisions are fabricated by those who benefit from such divisions. I believe that this is easily recognized by those who can think critically. I’m not divided from anyone on the planet who can actually think for themselves and is willing to exchange ideas. I contend that the only REAL social divisions that exist for thinking people are between themselves and the willfully ignorant… and the leaders that perpetuate that ignorance.

– Learning –

One of the dumbest things we can do is to deny ourselves the opportunity of being wrong. We should desire the acquisition of new information and perspective. We should crave that growth if we truly want to be better people or have greater understanding. We should never let a preconceived notion dictate the information we will examine and we should never be so stubborn as to ignore even the most remote of possibilities. Unfortunately, this is almost the definition of the modern standard and we are clearly living its repercussions. If you want real change, be different; question everything.

– REAL History – 

Theodore Roosevelt once said that “The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future“. Perhaps, but I think that really depends on which version of the past you choose to believe.

– Integrity – 

It seems like the most effective way to right a wrong anymore is by merely saying “I understand your position and I’ll try to remain as objective as possible in my review.”

– History –

You can celebrate history by actually knowing it.

– Natural Health –

True health is not found… it is created.

– Leadership –

Leadership is having the courage to do the right thing; by seizing the moment and affecting positive change; especially when others either cannot or do not.

– Theology –

May you never be shackled by the thoughts of another, but instead, be set free by your own.

– Leadership –

Technically, there’s no such thing as a Fortune 500 person. They are called Fortune 500 companies for a reason. These companies are comprised of teams all working towards a common goal and led by someone willing make tough decisions precisely when those tough decisions need to be made.

– TRUE Feminism –

Women have every right to be angry—they’ve been duped by ‘Marxist feminism,’ unaware of its connection to ‘ideological subversion,’ which is a calculated tactic aimed at destabilizing society. As a result, many women have been led to see their natural counterparts as enemies. Now, women are frustrated, empty, and alone, while men have grown indifferent. It seems that the single most powerful obstacle to Marxist rule—the family—has been undermined. In other words, the goal of ‘discrediting the family as an institution’ has been achieved, and our collective future is paying the price. It’s truly sad.

– Sales –

We’ve become a nation of order takers and customer service reps uninterested in the people we serve.

– Rights –

Another person’s rights are not contingent on your comfort.

– The Constitution –

You cannot support, love, exercise, or defend a Constitution you have never read.

– Personal Growth –

You wouldn’t expect something to grow when you refuse to feed it. So if you seek to grow and develop as a person; if you want better outcomes in your life, then you need to give your mind something good to digest.

– Socialism –

I used to think that there was no such thing as a stupid question, but I was forced to reconsider that when I discovered just how many considered ‘Socialism’ the answer.

– Leadership –

Always note the difference between a real leader and someone in a leadership position.

– Decision Making –

You can make great decisions based on good-negative information but you’ll only make terrible decisions based on bad-positive information.

– Teaching –

The best lessons are usually the ones we don’t realize we are having in the moment.

– Knowledge –

You’ve probably heard that knowledge is power. However, power isn’t created; it’s transferred. So, if you seek that power, you need to relentlessly pursue knowledge and information.

– Overt Oppression –

There is nothing more dangerous or problematic than an ego problem with a gun. And frankly, for the innocent being abused and bullied, it doesn’t matter if that ego problem is carrying a bandanna or a badge.

– The Seemingly Obvious –

Servitus non est dux

– Privilege Prevarication –

I’m not sure how I feel about the privilege of being called racist because of my race by those who see nothing except race but somehow believe that they can’t be racist for only seeing race because of their race.

– A Prime Target –

Statistically speaking, America is now fatter, dumber, and weaker than ever. We are a prime target sitting on vast resources. This could get bumpy.

– Medical Misinvestment –

When it comes to chronic disease, there are several things that are true. A physician cannot truly fix the symptom (effect) if they do not fix the root cause, physicians often forget that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, ‘rare’ is not the same thing as ‘impossible,’ medical ignorance hinders and often prolongs effective resolution, and a physician cannot find what they are ignorant of, deny, or refuse to search for. Perhaps these truths highlight a fundamental lack of curiosity or why over half of all Americans suffer from at least one chronic disease. Perhaps these truths illuminate the problem with the overemphasis on acute illness and pharmaceuticals in allopathic medicine. Either way, something needs to change.

– Stick Up For Yourself –

Respect is earned, but it’s also reflective. This means that you have to respect yourself before others will. This also means you have to be willing to stand up for yourself. Don’t just take it on the chin. Right or wrong, I say that if your niceness is met with negatives, nix the niceties and act accordingly. It’s game theory! Remember, you teach people how to treat you.

– Leadership Trends –

Everyone’s a multimillionaire CEO waiting to happen, right? Social media would have you believe that all it takes is a sprinkle of desire and a handful of fancy quotes to make it reality. Beyond silly! Of course, leadership is often seen in a similar light – just a series of whatever empty platitudes or trendy concepts they’re peddling this week. But that’s not reality. If you truly want to stand out or advance yourself, learn how to truly think and learn how to be a true leader. Genuine critical thinking, much like genuine leadership, is a very rare skill these days.

– Perspective Matters –

Think of your effort like tending a vineyard—each grape represents the small victories, milestones, and growth along the way. Of course, they don’t ripen overnight; they require patience, dedication, and persistence. However, every drop of your blood, sweat, and tears adds to their sweetness. And when the harvest comes, those grapes can be transformed into anything—a fruit snack, jelly, juice, vinegar, or even a fine wine. It’s not an “all-or-nothing” situation. And yes, some may wither on the vine, but even those setbacks can become raisins—proof that even our struggles can add unexpected value if we choose to see them for what they truly are.

– The Real World –

When we don’t have a firm grip on reality, we tend to become victims of it. 

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