Quote of the Day “I had just learned something Buddhists have known since the fifth century BC. The first noble truth of Buddhism is that all life involves suffering. Aging, sickness, and loss are inevitable. And while life includes some
Quote of the Day “Reverend Scotty McLennan explained that in his forty years of helping people through loss, he has seen that ‘turning to God gives people a sense of being enveloped in loving arms that are eternal and ultimately
Quote of the Day “We plant the seeds of resilience in the ways we process negative events. After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman found that three P’s can stunt recovery: (1) personalization—the belief that
Quote of the Day “You can’t touch music—it exists only at the moment it is being apprehended—and yet it can profoundly alter how we view the world and our place in it. Music can get us through difficult patches in
Quote of the Day “Where we blame our own bad outcomes on bad luck, when it comes to our peers, bad outcomes are clearly their fault. While our own good outcomes are due to our awesome decision-making, when it comes
Quote of the Day “We can’t just “absorb” experiences and expect to learn. As novelist and philosopher Aldous Huxley recognized, “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” There
Quote of the Day “There is no sin in finding out there is evidence that contradicts what we believe. The only sin is in not using that evidence as objectively as possible to refine that belief going forward.” – Annie
Quote of the Day “Harvard psychology professor Daniel Gilbert, in a 1991 paper in which he summarized centuries of philosophical and scientific study on the subject, concluded, ‘Findings from a multitude of research literatures converge on a single point: People
Quote of the Day “Every decision commits us to some course of action that, by definition, eliminates acting on other alternatives. Not placing a bet on something is, itself, a bet. Choosing to go to the movies means that we
Quote of the Day “By treating decisions as bets, poker players explicitly recognize that they are deciding on alternative futures, each with benefits and risks. They also recognize there are no simple answers. Some things are unknown or unknowable. The