Thought of the Moment

Why is targeted, mistake-focused practice so effective? Because the best way to build a good circuit is to fire it, attend to mistakes, then fire it again, over and over. Struggle is not an option: it's a biological requirement. Read more

Children are coached on how to jump through a thousand scholastic hoops. Yet by far the most important decisions they will make are about whom to marry and whom to befriend, what to love and what to despise, and how to control impulses.

- David Brooks Read more

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Anne Frank Read more

"Saying sorry doesn't mean that you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value the relationship more than your ego." Read more

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

- Winston Churchill Read more

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful - that's what matters to me.

- Steve Jobs Read more

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs Read more

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

- Viktor Frankl Read more

Today, let's make sure that those we love know with certainty how we feel about them. Read more

"...people are still blind to the way unconscious affections and aversions shape daily life. Modern society has created a giant apparatus for the cultivation of hard skills, while failing to develop the moral and emotional faculties down below. Read more