Feb 21, 2021
Pessimism “Organisms that treat threats as more urgent than opportunities have a better chance to survive and reproduce.” – Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Ideas Worth Exploring 1 The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement The formula...
Feb 18, 2021
Evil “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” — Sergei Bondarchuk, Film director and screenwriter Source: War and Peace (1966) Ideas Worth Exploring 1 The High-Return Activity of Raising Others’ Aspirations Former Harvard...
Feb 14, 2021
Mastery “Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure…The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Poet, and Novelist...
Feb 10, 2021
Culture “No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilisation has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.” — Ruth Benedict,...
Feb 7, 2021
Knowledge The Power of Music “Without music life would be a mistake.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher Ideas Worth Exploring 1 Solitude and Leadership A thought-provoking essay based on a speech delivered at the United States Military Academy at West Point....
Jan 31, 2021
Forgiveness “Men are unable to forgive what they cannot punish and… unable to punish what has turned out to be unforgivable.” — Hannah Arendt, Political theorist Ideas Worth Exploring 2 Having Stars on Your Team Can Make the Rest of the Team Slack (Study)...