Sunday Firesides: Is It Safer to Be Cautious Than Brave?
The Semai, an indigenous people who inhabit the Malay Peninsula, may represent the most non-violent and conflict-averse society on earth. Anthropologists posit that after enduring a century of predation by Malay raiders and slavers, they developed a sense of “learned helplessness”; because it didn’t seem possible to fight back, they adopted a pattern of fleeing […]
Be a Time Wizard: How to Slow Down and Speed Up Time
While time is fixed and measurable, we often perceive as if it is faster or slower depending on the circumstances. Learn how to be a wizard and make time slow down.
We’re either going or we’re not going. We get to make that decision every day. Perhaps you’ve decided: We’re going. That detour we hit, the pothole we narrowly avoided, the …