Education is the great equalizer, but only if access to it is truly equal.
You have to think for yourself. It always amazes me how high-IQ people mindlessly imitate. I never get good ideas talking to other people.
The study of attention provides a window into how the brain selects, integrates, and acts upon information.
Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because you have to.
The stranger is an element of the group itself, not unlike the poor and sundry 'inner enemies'—an element whose membership within the group involves both being outside it and confronting it.