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I have my own personal definition of disadvantage and it comes from my own background of growing up in foster homes in Brooklyn, New York. I never felt that I […]
The issue of risk is absolutely central to being a creative person.
Business work today is about grit, perseverance and a good work ethic. This is where our kids fall down.
When you have a very rigid society without social mobility the underachieving kids of overachieving parents get a privileged run and get helped into colleges they shouldn’t really be getting into.
Adaptability is going to be one of the most critical skills we can have in the future.
The whole idea of mastery is you’re going to eventually become a greater master than you’re mentor.
We have reason to believe that some aspects of free will you are not consciously aware of. I don’t think that necessarily means that you’re not free, but you’re not consciously aware of it.
One of the beautiful things about the Internet is that everybody has a voice. And one of the terrible things about the Internet is that everybody has a voice.
Do Buddhism’s many facets as a movement mean that no criticism can ever be applied to it?
Control. Without a sense of control, we feel less safe. With a sense of control – whether we actually have that control or not – we feel safer. A […]
I think that the debate over the existence of free will is so much more consequential than the debate over the existence of God.
So the respected New America foundation—taking its cue from former Princeton president William G. Bowen—is all about reconfiguring higher education along the lines of the 21st century high-tech, highly competitive global marketplace. What we […]
What the average person in the Westernized world considers to be a big problem is rarely aligned with reality.
Not too long ago I found myself in a red—a very deep red—state, for a research trip. It’s the sort of place where they feel compelled to post on the […]
Who is making us more polarized?
You copy the people to whom you are connected primarily and you come to copy them along a whole variety of traits.
With patients’ help, researchers in the UK created a digital avatar of the voice, which then was used to slowly help the patients regain control over their lives.
The world just lost a brilliant and fearless journalist. Michael Hastings did more in his short life than most people do in an entire lifetime. As information continues to come […]
A conversation with Matt Arnold, Managing Director and Head of the Office of Environmental Affairs, JPMorgan Chase.
I did do an analysis of the 147 predictions I did for 2009 in my book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, which I wrote in the mid to late 1990’s […]
Ideas from modern philosophy hold up better to scrutiny than does Buddhism.
The premise of many business books is to boldly go where no business book has ever gone before, to gather more data, to interview more executives, to read more articles […]
When you’re young you really don’t have the concept of failure.
As soon as we abandon the first intuitions we have, that we’re the ones in control of everything, then we can start sailing into the inner cosmos and discovering all sorts of new planets and life forms and things like that on the inside of our skulls.
Last week, I published the first in a three-part dialogue between myself and the Danish psychotherapist Ole Vadum Dahl. In the article, Ole and I are exploring some of our […]
The self goes all the way out to the tongue sticking out and then back in.
A month or two ago I wrote about the rampant proliferation of “hotness” ratings for women where they have no business or place. Even the most accomplished women, ranging from […]
So what young conservative blogger/essayist would you recommend to challenge those who believe they’re smarter than every conservative in the world? Well, SAM GOLDMAN. Sam’s not the only one by […]
Geoengineering or climate engineering refers to humans taking larger action to slow down climate change or even reverse it.