“Sickness consists essentially in wanting what is not good for us” - Erich Fromm

One of the most important skills that we're not taught is how to learn. We're encouraged to pursue intellectual growth and become lifelong learners. But education overlooks equipping learners w/ tested strategies for effective learning. Daniel Willingham nytimes.com/2023/04/20/opi…

What Your Favorite Personality Test Says About You. I got Big Five! But, I won't shy away from the fact that I really fell in love with Myers Briggs when I was in undergrad. theatlantic.com/family/archive…

"Despite what many may think, we aren’t islands unto ourselves; we are the creation of the many hands that touch us. We don’t just exist in communities, we are created and shaped by them." Brian S Lowery Jay Van Bavel, PhD powerofus.substack.com/p/interview-se…

We need public institutions that ask, “how do we weave the fulfilment of human potential into the fabric of our society?”.

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung

Professional Wrestling makes me so damned happy. Once I get my PhD I’m going for the World Heavyweight Championship.

😂 Credit: Asher Perlman

"I have often thought that the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensively active and alive. At such moments, there is a voice inside which speaks

People “who believe in manifestation - the ability to cosmically attract success in life through positive self-talk, visualization, and symbolic actions (e.g., acting as if something is true) - are more likely to have experienced bankruptcy.” doi.org/10.1177/014616…

Carl Sagan on the magic of the book: "What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for

"It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in

This just came out. Premise-occupational burnout is an ancient appeasement response to unwinnable conflicts at work, triggered by dominant leaders, group censure, and the isolation of remote work. Now to test empirically.

Akira Kurosawa's important advice to youngsters:

“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day. Just set one day’s work in front of the last day’s work. That’s the way it comes out. And that’s the only way it does.” — John Steinbeck, 1962

“The work of Fulbright New Zealand over the years has contributed significantly to achieving Senator Fulbright’s goal of fostering leadership, learning and empathy between cultures.” – Sarah Nelson, United States Consul General to New Zealand and Samoa and Board Member of

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1891

Nobody can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk! — Nietzsche, 1876