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Dreaming together
Nine women are sitting in a room with their eyes closed. One starts to speak. “Last night I dreamed I went to the hairdresser. Every week this woman had a new idea for my hair. This time she said: ‘a pony tail.’ I thought,What does she mean? Is that even an option?You see, I had mid-length Read More...
Pharmacy in a box
“You shouldn't spoil people in developing countries with donor money; you need to help them develop a sense of entrepreneurship.” This motto of Healthy Entrepreneurs—an organization that works to ensure that generic medicines are affordable and available in developing countries—is also Read More...
Get your hands dirty; that's the first rule
Belgian entrepreneur Gunter Pauli has a simple cure for the unemployment ravaging much of the Western world. He invites you to start your own company--without a business plan, money or experience. “If you don’t have money or experience, use what you have locally available,” he says. His Read More...
What you can change
EXTRA: Don't miss our online event with John-Paul Flintoff on the 16th of May. Yours is a nice little book, just over 150 pages. Not bad for a guide to changing the world. “Ha! I knew it was a ridiculously grand title, and I’ve heard more people saying what you just said. I think it’s a Read More...
Near death, a physician discovers life
EXTRA: Don't miss our online course about the afterlife, with Eben Alexander, Jeffrey Long and Pim van Lommel. For seven days, an American neurosurgeon underwent a spiritual journey through time and space—despite a demonstrable absence of brain activity. When he woke from his coma, he wrote Read More...
Life is not a contest
Last year, I made a New Year’s resolution that, in hindsight, was both vague and overly ambitious. The resolution was “Get better at everything.” The theory behind it was that I’d been slacking off a bit in my twenties, enjoying the social events, short work weeks and lazy Sunday Read More...
More attention, less worry
It’s an understandable reaction when people are told they have cancer: they worry. But in half of all cancer patients, worry slides into depression or an anxiety disorder. That complication disrupts the healing process. Hospital stays are longer and mortality rates are higher among depressed Read More...
The myth of shareholder value
Back when I was a law-school student in the early 1980s, my professors taught me that shareholders “own” corporations and that the purpose of corporations is to “maximize shareholder value.” I was just out of college at the time and not very familiar with the business world, so this made Read More...
When monks rule
Once, long ago, rulers in India kept monks close to their courts. They knew the ascetics’ daily meditations had a calming effect on the populace. The kings took care of the monks so they could care for society. Even in medieval Europe, villages felt protected against robbers in the presence of a Read More...
Say good-bye to ADHD
Twelve-year-old Ruben is sitting on a podium in front of a room full of academics and journalists. He’s beaming, as is his mother beside him, and doesn’t seem the least intimidated by the learned audience. Ruben had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)—past tense. Initially, there Read More...