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A scuffle over where to have dinner isn't really about what restaurant is best. It's about two loud personalities trying to assert power over one another. It's about ego.

When storytelling, Simmons writes, "Let your listener's ego sleep."

It's an astute observation, and interesting to note her choice of words -- "sleep" instead of "fade." She recognizes there's no such thing as a snuffed ego, and so it's best to let that particular beast rest. Her advice on how to let the ego sleep, all on page 150, is solid as well.

Good Catholic trick: For the time you're communicating with the women and men in your life, exorcise all traces of self-interest.

Anybody care to try it for an afternoon and see what happens? Whether life begins to feel different? Better? Worse?