Tony Schwartz's Blog


Awareness, Triggers, Values | March 21, 2012
Recently, I came across this startling statistic. Each day, we make an average of 217 food-related decisions. Is it any surprise we so often make poor choices about what we eat?

Awareness, Emotional Needs | July 26, 2011
"It is a law of human nature," David Brooks writes in his newest book The Social Animal, "that the more men you concentrate in one happy pack, the more each of them will come to resemble Donald Trump. They possess a sort of masculine photosynthesis to start with — the ability to turn sunlight into self-admiration.

Awareness, Renewal, Sustainability | March 22, 2011
I often begin talks by asking my audience three questions: “How many of you would say that demand in your lives has increased significantly during the past several years?” “How many of you,” I ask next, “expect that demand in your lives is going to get even greater during the next several years?” For both, nearly every hand goes up. “Ok,” I say, “so here’s the $64,000 question: How many of you expect your capacity to rise right along with demand?”

Awareness | January 2, 2011
Twenty five years ago, the New York Times Magazine ran an extraordinary article titled "How Do Tobacco Executives Live With Themselves?" by Roger Rosenblatt. At the end, he quoted an executive named Victor Crawford who worked for five years as a lobbyist for the Tobacco Institute and helped defeat a series of anti-smoking bills. A smoker himself, Crawford had been diagnosed with throat cancer two years earlier at the age of 59.