The new prob­lems of the world require fresh approaches. They require our inge­nu­ity and our care­ful, cre­ative con­sid­er­a­tion. You and I know this, but still most of us don’t often get mean­ing­fully involved. Why is this? I think there is a col­lec­tive feel­ing that these prob­lems are too big for any of us to make […]

Randy Komisar is a good guy. He’s a Sil­i­con Val­ley CEO. Lis­ten­ing to him speak is like being sat down by your down-to-earth uncle, who wants to give you career advice. Komisar is good at giv­ing inter­est­ing advice about ‘fol­low­ing your pas­sion’ with­out sound­ing trite or overly moti­va­tional.  A lot of us get stuck on […]

Seth Men­achem is an LA direc­tor who, in his spare time, asks elderly strangers for advice. I grew up far away from my grand­par­ents and I’ve lived over­seas, away from my own par­ents, for a long time. Maybe this is why I love these clips from Life Advice from Old peo­ple. These are two of my […]

Barry Schwartz explains why hav­ing the free­dom to choose can actu­ally decrease your happiness.

Would you rather get paid to do noth­ing? Or would you pre­fer to have an impor­tant, chal­leng­ing job? Tim­o­thy Fer­ris (in The 4 Hour Work Week) basi­cally advo­cates the no-work option. What could be bet­ter than doing noth­ing all day and still get­ting paid? Per­son­ally I wouldn’t refuse being paid to laze around the pool of […]

I love talk­ing to peo­ple about their aspi­ra­tions. I really do. But there is a dark side to goals and what we often think of as “moti­va­tion.” I have a lot of goals. Last week I con­fessed that I wanted to be a doc­tor, a pilot, a CEO, and a Sen­a­tor before I die. I admit […]