If our prime objective is happiness and we know that children seem to be naturally happy then it seems logical that we should try to figure out what we can learn about happiness from children. One of the more important aspects of being human is curiosity and imagination. The industrial age of the 20th century …
Your emotions obviously play a big role in your happiness in the moment and the more you can learn about how to manage your emotions the more you can use positive emotions to your advantage and better manage negative emotions. You probably know that your brain plays a big role in either triggering emotions and …
There are countless references in this book to maximizing our positive impact on ourselves and on the people that are most important to us in order to generate doses of happiness. Thankfully, my hypothesis happens to be supported by research. There is research indicating that the people that matter most to us are, in one …
It’s difficult to feel happy if you are not satisfied with our self-worth. Maximizing your impact is possibly the most efficient way to maximize your self-worth. What determines your self-worth? I don’t mean generally. I mean you. What is it in your life that you think determines your own self-worth? Take a moment to answer …
What is a human and how does it work? I strongly believe that the purpose of life is to spend as much time as possible trying to discover the purpose of life. The constant trying is the journey and living an MPI life is the vehicle that can carry you along the journey and in …
“One size fits all education” is a remnant of the Industrial Age and doesn’t work. This system of education involves a teacher effectively telling 30 students: “I will teach one thing. I will teach it this way. I will teach it for this amount of time” and everyone must fit into this inflexible “education delivery …
Humanity benefits from having different types of people. Some people question everything and others don’t question anything. Humanity benefits people to not question things because this is how things get done. On the other hand we need people that do question things so that we can review and re assess what are doing and make …
An increasing number of decisions that used to be made by humans and now made by algorithms. What is an algorithm? The simple summary is that it is a list of “if then” scenarios programmed into some software that tells a another piece of software or device what to do when any particular scenario presents …
The Internet is a global technological system of networked computer networks. That is a purely technological definition and grossly understates the significance of the Internet. The Internet is not just network among computers, it’s a network among humans and computers and the input of humans has a significant impact on the Internet and other humans. …
New human species Will we live alongside other human species in our lifetimes? Juan Enríquez (3.2) was the founding director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School and a fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs. The universe started approximately 13 billion years ago. The earth became a planet approximately 4 billion years ago. Humans appear …