Most of us believe our spending choices are personal. We choose the clothes we buy. We choose the restaurants we visit. We choose the gadgets we upgrade. Or at least that’s what it feels like. But modern consumer culture did not emerge accidentally. It was carefully...
There is a saying I have been thinking about lately: “No poison can kill a positive thinker. No medicine can save a negative thinker.” Taken literally, of course, neither statement is true. But I don't think wisdom always arrives in scientifically precise sentences....
Two people can walk into the same room, meet the same people, hear the same words, and walk away having experienced two completely different realities. Why? Because neither of them entered the room alone. They brought with them their beliefs about themselves. One...