The business-style leadership becomes cynical if pushed too far. Not everything is just a business. Integrity and trust matter. Without them, the society falls apart. Those cold-headed-and-calculating cynics are free riders on the back of the honest majority. But they will go under as everybody else as soon as the invisible soft social infrastructure cracks.
Progress continues, although it is so easy to lose the perspective in the information noise and the multitudes of opinions. Especially striking is the difference between the presentation in the media and the actual process of decision making inside the government behind the closed doors.
We understand each other, including the intentions and the feeling of others. How we do it? What makes us feel the same way? The scientists discovered that there are specialized neurons that are activated in primates when they observe actions of others.
Life wisdom comes to each of us only with time, after one tried everything he dared, and failed, and succeeded, and failed again.
Skill downloading or acquiring it any other easy way was always a dream for humanity. Today it takes many hours and even years of training with the result far from being guaranteed. Besides, while the training going on, our motivation changes, we ourselves are changing, often unpredictably.
Focus on the goal is a powerful tool that helps to overcome insurmountable obstacles. But one has to be smart enough to see the limits of the approach and adjust the course or roll back the effort at all. Ability to do it is called wisdom.
Fair competition is great. But it is based on the assumption that the starting conditions for the competitors were fair too. Well, how often this assumption is correct in the real life?
Bill Gates is worth listening. He is smart and has access to the best sources of information. He also does a lot for the humanity and does what he can to secure the great future for our children and greatchildren.
Quantum physics looks strange because we do not encounter anything like its effects in our everyday life. But these experiments change the situation. If we observed such behavior every day, we would not consider quantum physics strange.
Parenting is a full-time job with great responsibility, a lot of risks and low reward. Well, we don’t think so when start doing it. And that is good. Otherwise, very few people would do it.