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USA vs. Belgium: #AreYouReady
Via U.S. Soccer
Albert O. Hirschman and The Power of Failure.
I liked this Gladwell piece from The New Yorker profiling Albert O. Hirschman, an influential economist and author of several well known books. Hirschman, an esoteric mind, felt that people were more creative when they experienced failure. Then, he believed, people were forced to think. Hirshman wrote, “Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore […]
The Hidden Power of Smiling
Why Matthieu Ricard is one of the happiest monks alive
Originally published on the yoga blog. Matthieu Ricard has been a Buddhist monk for some 40 years since he left his life as a molecular geneticist in the 1960′s. He left it all behind to live a life of renunciation in the Himalayas. It was during this time, he says, that he learned how to be […]