Foreword

In April 2012, I had the pleasure of sharing the podium with Peter Atwater at the second Socionomics Summit, the Socionomics Institute’s annual conference on social-mood theory. That’s when I found out that we had been greatly of like mind since 2009.

Through the fog of general skepticism, individuals often contact our Socionomics Institute with excitement about the moment they finally “get it.” Suddenly they are reading the news differently. They interpret events differently. They understand investment cycles. They understand history. And they no longer feel so lost about the future.

The far rarer individual, however, is one who expands our knowledge. Atwater is a life-long peak performer. After serving as a high-level officer in major ...

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