Then one day out the blue, this person reaches out to you and asks for your help.

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For example, if someone from "IT support" calls you and asks for your password so they can help fix your problem, how do you know they haven't called everyone else in the building first until they found you who has really got a problem?

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When you sign on, of course, BestFriends asks for permission to access Facebook and you give them your username and password.

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When a new pope has been elected, the Cardinal Dean or Cardinal first in order and seniority asks the elected person for his consent saying: Do you accept your canonical election as Supreme Pontiff?

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Don't carry your Social Security card around and never give the number out to any business that asks for it.

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So if your kid asks you for an iPad or a laptop, have them open an account and start saving.

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It asks you to be objective in relationship to yourself. (Think about that for a moment and see if your head explodes.) And it demands you be enough of a skilled empathizer that you can inhabit the minds of others and generate a deep, ideally intuitive sense of how they experience you consciously and unconsciously.

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You call your guide who asks questions, tells you to keep a food diary for a week, and schedules an appointment with an allergist for the next week.

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