Risk ain't what it used to be - if fact, most of the time it isn't even risk at all. Instead it is something called Knightian Uncertainty - or the fundamental inability of humans to know for sure what will happen tomorrow. Yet we have to make decisions about tomorrow…
To quote The ReThink Group's great intern, Clay Berry a senior at Rutgers, "The first speaker of the day, Luiz Pessoa from The University of Indiana, talked about "How do emotion and motivation interact with cognitive control?" Pessoa noted how the older notion of emotion and perception/cognition being two separate…
At the recent Neuroleadership summit in Boston, Lisa Feldman Barrett articulated a whole new view on the appropriate model for understanding our thinking and our feelings. "Lisa challenged some of the most deeply held ideas about how the mind works in her session. She stated that Daniel Goldman’s theory on…
... or so says the WSJ today. "It was 75% engineering and 25% a miracle," said topographer Macarena Valdes as she was speaking of her own role in the rescue. I submit that maybe only 75% was engineering but the miracle portion occurred within Ms. Valdes' brain! She acknowledged using…
Two new terms you will (eventually) read in this book I am feverishly working on. (It's true - I am having a blast and really want nothing else but to be able to work on it... hence, my choice of the word feverishly): "Travesting" - meaning the combination of trading…
