Table Manners: How to Behave in the Modern World and Why Bother
For every young person, woman and man, world traveler or homebody, who needs brushing up on their manners, this is the perfect gift. This book presents the importance of values in a witty and...
The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
Harry Potter is often described as a philosophical treatise disguised as a children’s book. I couldn't agree more. The author, J.K Rowling, gave this inspiring speech at Harvard a few years ago. It is...
Read My Mind: Do You Ever Really Know What Someone Else is Thinking?
I love this speech and cannot resist sharing it with you. It is the remarks that Joe Biden gave to the graduating class at Yale in 2015. He tells a powerful story of how our beliefs...
What is the World’s Most Wanted Painting?
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus? Monet’s Water Lilies? Munch’s The Scream? Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring?
It turns out none of the above. Two digital artists, Vitalyl Komar and Alex Melamid, conducted a number of...
The Things that Matter
The comedian George Carlin once said,
A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.
Nate Berkus couldn’t disagree more.
In his book, The Things That Matter, Berkus...
Learning Resilience from a Master
The last ten years of Henri Matisse’s were far from what most of us would think of as joyful. His marriage was over, he was diagnosed with cancer and underwent a number of painful...