HOW CAN YOU TELL WHO LIKES YOU AND ARE THEREFORE MORE WILLING TO GIVE YOU THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT? (LET ME WARN YOU: KNOWING THIS WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR SELF-ESTEEM)

Finding out who likes you and would give you the benefit of the doubt is not the hard part. The hard part is --- after learning why some people just don't like you or like you --- to learn not to take rejections from some people personally.

If you can tell why some people just don't like you, you can understand why some people seem to be more willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

How useful is this information?

I used to joke with my friends "One of the fastest ways to become rich is to set up a religion and come up with a crazy idea about the meaning of life and then go to the confused masses out there and look for people whom I can tell will kiss the grounds I walk on and convert them to my religion and then ask my converts to donate their possessions to the church under my control."

Do you think it is hard to find converts in this world to follow my crazy church?

Take a look around you.

It doesn't take much to be a leader these days, particularly a leader of a sect. In fact, it never has.

There are people who believe that we are transplanted from outer space, that the earth is hollow and we never went to the moon.

There are many people with more money than brain. If they are going to throw good money away, might as well toss some my way because I just know the best ways to spend money.

There are many more people who are walking around with overloaded guilt. They are so overloaded with guilt that they are willing to jump into anything that promises salvation. Guilt is good. Guilt is money.

However, I have too much integrity and honesty to make money this way.

The reason I am telling you there really are people out there who are willing to give you the benefit of the doubt is to help you realize you are a valued person to some. So stop feeling sorry for yourself and start living up to your potential.