The Exponential Curve of Excellence

It's not just young scientists who have become failure-averse. As you move on in your career and have to obtain grant support, you naturally highlight the successes and propose experiments that will continue to produce results. The lab becomes a kind of money machine.

Although these th...

• Nurture your faith daily. Developing strong faith requires consistent effort and practice. Jesus teaches that even faith as small as a mustard seed can achieve the impossible.

• Face challenges with belief. Approaching difficulties with a mindset ...

• The purpose of all our reading and studying is to aid us in the pursuit of the good life. At some point, we must put our books aside and take action. So that, as Seneca put it, the "words become works." There is an old saying that a "scholar made is a soldier spoiled." We want to be both sch...