A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams.

Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.

the price you pay for opening your eyes is the easy life you can no longer have. but it becomes worth it.

The power of a smile goes a long way. My mom taught me that.

Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.

Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -​ so they promise. And I believe it, too.

Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.

Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.