Play takes us beyond the bounds of what our minds think is reasonable
Perhaps the reason why creativity is given short shrift in academia is because it has a light, playful energy, rather than the heavy, dense energy…
Transformational Learning
Certainty is a closed loop
The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus said, “It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” When you know something in…
Why love is the next step in human intelligence
During the final hearing for my Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Chicago, my advisor, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi pulled me aside and whispered to me: “NEVER…
After I finished my Ph.D., I moved to the wilderness of northwest Montana
After I finished my Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, I tried very hard to do what I was ‘supposed’ to do… get a tenure-track…
Rediscovering the right hemisphere: Unlocking our potential
In 1973, neurobiologist Roger Sperry made a profound observation: “There appears to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented separately in left and…
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