I'd like you to predict which of these three people is fastest. We have a middle-aged woman, a young man and a young woman. ...

I think Christians, Buddhists, evolutionary biologists, statisticians, and developmental economists are right. There is no way to make sense...

Bernard was excited, which delighted me. I knew that his eyes lit up like that only when he'd been seized by a new idea he wanted to sha...

In two earlier posts, I concluded that the medieval church became evil. This matters because the medieval church is still a model for instit...

There is lots of news and commentary addressing the question of using torture. The typical arguments against it revolve around the notion th...

The Obama administration is set on spending more on education, but they still haven't seemed to confront the basic truth about it: we ne...

There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ...

Poets, mystics, and romantics talk about love as a loss of self, a transcendence of the ego. On Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions measur...

Eternity is not something that starts after you die. That is the afterlife. Eternity is something that’s already going on. It was going on b...

Bad governments come in at least two forms: they put up bureaucratic obstacles to those who are pushing beyond the current norms and / or th...

How do we reconcile these two realities that seem to seriously clash? On the one hand, we have the reality of our need for autonomy, intrins...

Last year, Harvard student's made Tal Ben-Shahar's happiness class the most popular on campus. And for good reason. His course (from...

One of the men who most influenced my perspective on the modern world is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi . I'm still amazed that Csikszentmihaly...

Attitude is everything. As Henry Ford said, "Whether you think you can or think you cannot, you are right." Your life is what you ...

Harvard and Stanford are not really such great universities. If they had to take high school graduates at random, it’s not obvious that they...

Organizational Goals are Meaningless Goals I've become an officer for a local Toastmaster's club and we officers are supposed to art...

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world n...