Few Of Us Can Accurately Gauge How

The Mistakes We Make When We Try To Imagine Our Personal Futures Are Also Lawful, Regular, And Systematic. They, Too, Have A Pattern That Tells Us About The Powers And Limits Of Foresight In Much The Same Way That Optical Illusions Tell Us About The Powers And Limits Of Eyesight.

Impact Is Rewarding. Mattering Makes Us Happy.

Alas, We Think Of Ourselves As Unique Entities-minds Unlike Any Others-and Thus We Often Reject The Lessons That The Emotional Experience Of Others Has To Teach Us.

To Learn From Experience, We Must Remember It, And, For A Variety Of Reasons, Memory Is A Faithless Friend.

I Have Everything That I Could Possibly Want In Life, From A Gorgeous Granddaughter And A Wonderful Wife, Brilliant Students, The Best Job Anyone Could Hope For, And About Half Of My Hair. Not The Half I Would Have Kept, But No One Consulted Me.