Archive for 2012
Creativity: The Secret Behind the Secret
In 2010, IBM’s Institute for Business Value surveyed over 1,500 chief executives about the most important leadership competency for this new millennium. Creativity was the across-the-board’s winner. No surprise,
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Inside the Brain of an Entrepreneur
Barbara Sahakian was curious. It was the middle 2000s and Sahakian, a professor of clinical neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge in England, got interested in high risk behavior. Historically,
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Flow, Five-Year Old Mountaineers and Other Tales from the Edge
When Trish Herr became pregnant with her first daughter, Alex, she and her husband, Hugh, vowed to instill a bond with nature in their children. By the time Alex
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Hacking Abundance: Developing Better Leaders Faster
#1: The Technophilanthropists and Beyond) Abundance spends a fair amount of time cataloguing the impact that the the new breed of technophilanthropists are having on global giving (see our recent Forbes piece for
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How Much Abundance Will The Future Hold: A Response To Matt Ridley’s WSJ Article
On WallStreetJournal.com, the science writer Matt Ridley has penned a very interesting article on some of the ideas discussed in Abundance. Here are a few additional thoughts. Ridley examines deflation, which
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Flow: The Science Behind the Sensations
Beyond the anecdotal, researchers have late begun trying to understand the science behind the states. In the 1980s, the consensus was that flow (or runner’s high as it was
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A Conversation with Sam Harris about Abundance
Sam: Is the world really getting better? Peter and Steven: If you pull back a little bit from the sea of bad news that’s assaulting us these days, what you actually
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Who Is Secretly Working To Keep Pot Illegal?
This piece was originally written for TruTV, but they broke it up into bite size chunks when they published it online. Maybe it’s the long-form narrative lover in me,
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High as Hell: The Evolution of our Gambling Addiction
Americans love a gamble, any gamble apparently. While there’s no accounting for wins and losses at private poker games, we do know that the US gaming industry takes in
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The Neuroscience of Mystical Experience: Part I
The following is excerpted from West of Jesus. It is a detailed breakdown of the psychological, physiological and philosophical effects of modernity on our mythological tendencies: Scholars use the words
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