I Was A Terrible Dancer. I Dance

I'm Struck By How Laughter Connects You With People. It's Almost Impossible To Maintain Any Kind Of Distance Or Any Sense Of Social Hierarchy When You're Just Howling With Laughter. Laughter Is A Force For Democracy.

Would You Take A Billion Dollars, If As Part Of The Deal The Earth Were Made Uninhabitable A Year After Your Death? ... Well, Of Course Not; You Care About Your Friends, Above All Your Children, Any Grandchildren. But ... What If The Deal Calls For The Planet To Be Poisoned A Thousand Years Later? We Feel Strong Obligations To Generations In The Near Future - Should We Not Feel The Same Way About Our Children's Great-grandchildren And Generations Beyond Them?

If You Want Creative Workers, Give Them Enough Time To Play.

The Real Religion Is About The Understanding That If We Can Only Still Our Egos For A Few Seconds, We Might Have A Chance Of Experiencing Something That Is Divine In Nature. But In Order To Do That, We Have To Slice Away At Our Egos And Try To Get Them Down To A Manageable Size, And Then Still Work Some Practiced Light Meditation. So Real Religion Is About Reducing Our Egos, Whereas All The Churches Are Interested In Is Egotistical Activities, Like Getting As Many Members And Raising As Much Money And Becoming As Important And High-profile And Influential As Possible.

As Daniel Levitin Writes, Our Brain Is A "giant Pattern Detector." If We Read Something That Coincides With What We Already Believe We're More Likely To Give It Credence, While The Opposite Is Not True.