Our Future Is Not Just Unknown; It Is Unknowable.

While we may never see the present as perfect, we can learn to control our biases.

• Acknowledge how the media shifts our perceptions. It can make the present look worse than in the past.
• Take a realistic view of history and compare it with the present.
• Take stoc...

Researchers have found that for much of human evolutionary history our brains kept growing. In fact, if you count from our last shared ancestors with chimpanzees six million years ago, the human brain size almost quadrupled. This happened thanks in part to the im...

• Our closest relationships often become trigger festivals with consecuences that we rarely see in any other part of our lives; the fuming and shouting, the fights and slammed doors, the angry departures and refusals to talk to each other for months, years or decades.
• We feel we can sa...