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Paul Graham

I used to think of resourcefulness as a kind of practical intelligence, but I’ve recently started thinking of it as a combination of an energy state, an attitude, and an unexamined philosophy.

Venkatesh Rao • The Resourceful Life

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Clay Christensen hbr.org

At the end of the day, too many potentially highly productive individuals are underutilized, to their detriment and to the loss of society as a whole.

Daniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

Here are the writing prompts from my Senior Year English class. I wrote a typewriter essay on this in more detail here, and am considering re-answering these throughout the year.

What is the difference between a civilized person and a savage? Which is more natural? (9/12)
What are your plans for senior year? What do you hope to achieve? (9/13)
Why do

The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

Annie Murphy Paul nextbigideaclub.com

In understandable language, Richard J. Haier explains cutting-edge techniques based on genetics, DNA, and imaging of brain connectivity and function.

Richard J. Haier • The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)

🌀 PKM as self exploration

Renee De Four • 4 cards

In 1998, Dr. Martin Seligman, incoming president of the American Psychological Association (APA), had challenged the field of psychology to broaden its focus to study and implement interventions that went beyond human problems and pathology to include the study of human strengths and well-being—basically, what’s going right.2 He thus initiated posi