Complexity shouldn’t be a sector of your financial plan. The same applies to your garden. Many of us import invasive, non-local plants. This disturbs the delicate native ecosystem that pollinators and other beneficial insects rely upon. In addition, caring for these specimens often requires harsh chemicals that further erode nature’s balance. Someone has to take…

The experts get stuff wrong all the time. In the late 1800s, William James, the founder of Psychology, made a dramatic claim. “By age thirty, character has set like plaster and will never soften again.”   Recently, this declaration was turned on its head. In an experiment, social scientists recruited 1.500 entrepreneurs in their 30s, 40s,…

Knowing how to keep score before you play a game is essential. Too many people focus on external factors when their spotlight should be within. It’s futile to declare victory if the goal line keeps changing. Letting others define your happiness is an unmistakable path to a stalemate or worse. Counting the things that are…

We live in the richest of times. Why do so many feel so poor? Prosperity doesn’t feel so prosperous despite unprecedented advances in technology, science, medicine, and just about everything else. Unfortunately, paradox rules our modern world. The Dalai Lama observed our discontent and laid out his argument for the causes of rampant suffering despite…

America is filled with broken, antiquated systems indifferent to the modern world. Our education monopoly was designed to prepare children to toil on an assembly line. In many ways, things haven’t changed much. A nine-period day, few options for practical skills, and judging students by the lowest common denominator, a standardized test grade still rules…