As Forest Gump’s Mom used to say, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get”. She’s right, of course: Life can be random and unpredictable.... Read more »
In Book IX of the Politeia (commonly mistranslated as “The Republic”), Plato describes the tyrannical constitution as the most disordered form of governance in both cities and psyches. The tyrant rules by... Read more »
I’ve spent the last few years thinking about intelligence, looking to understand human, artificial, and the strange space between them. Most of the debate is around capability. How fast can it reason?... Read more »
I recall the first full-time job I ever had. I was a young graduate joining Alcan, an aluminium company that made commercial aluminium windows and doors for the architectural building industry. I... Read more »
Do you want to know a secret? Most of us live lives that are remarkably similar to those of superstars. As a psychologist working in Newport Beach, California, I have had the... Read more »
For many trauma survivors, tattoos are not about aesthetics.They are about choice and meaning. Trauma is not only something that happens to the mind. It happens to the body. Long after the... Read more »
I stumbled upon sound meditation through an Eckhart Tolle video—he rang a Nepal Cymbal (Tingsha) bell. He encouraged viewers to listen to the sound and follow it into the silence that remained... Read more »
Late last year, we lost one of the world’s greatest film makers when Rob Reiner was murdered alongside his wife. He was a gifted comedic actor, a screenwriter, the director of two... Read more »
Modern dating happens in a world that no longer has clear guardrails. There is no Austenian social choreography of paying calls, and we have long left Vienna ballroom etiquette behind us. On... Read more »
Recently, a young monkey named Punch (an interesting note: a primatologist said Japanese monkeys are hierarchical) went viral online. Rejected by his mother, he was filmed clinging to a soft Ikea toy... Read more »