I Went Home And They Seemed... My

The Great Artist Michelangelo Claimed That His Sculptures Were Already Present In The Stone, And All He Had To Do Was Carve Away Everything Else. Our Understanding Of Identity Is Often Similar: Beneath The Many Layers Of Shoulds And Shouldn’ts That Cover Us, There Lies A Constant, Single, True Self That Is Just Waiting To Be Discovered.

People Will Make Worse Financial Decisions For Them If They're Choosing From A Lot Of Options Than If They're Choosing From A Few Options. If They Have More Options They're More Likely To Avoid Stocks And Put All Their Money In Money Market Accounts, Which Doesn't Even Grow At The Rate Of Inflation.

In America We Tell Our Parents To Bring Their Child Home And Put Him Or Her In A Crib; As They Get Older, Children Sleep In They Own Room Not In Mom And Dad's Room. What Are We Training Them For? It's Independence, Because That's What Being Empowered Is All About.

There Is A Different Attitude About, You Know, How Much Differentiation There Needs To Be Between Our Options And How Many Choices Do I Need To Have In Order To Make A Choice.

Now To What...? How We Teach People To Make Choices And The Things They're Going To Make Choices Over - That Is Culturally Learned.