Ajinkya Wadhwa

When he thinks about it—and he does think about it, sometimes—he wonders whether this is all a mistake and he ended up in the wrong head. Because he can’t help but notice that next to him at all times is a hectic ball of orange fuzz that was living here when he moved in.

Life can barely keep up with all the additions.

If genes could talk to their animal, they’d probably issue a few simple commands:Stay alive and well functioning as long as possible. And then pass us into new containers before you inevitably deteriorate. Once we’re in new containers, those containers are more important than you. Sacrifice yourself if it’ll help them fulfill the first two... See more

The end goal is not to find flaws in the things you're told, but to find the new ideas that had been concealed by the broken ones.

Ultimately, we can live our lives according to what will be written on our tombstones. And given that a dollar sign won’t be on it, it’s time we stop inscribing one onto our minds as well.

While travel does expand and stretch the horizons of what we know about the world, it is not the answer we’re looking for in times of unrest. To strengthen the health of the mind, the venue to do that in is the one we are in now.

In Chapter 1, we discussed how each human has two “minds”—the Primitive Mind with its fiery flame and the Higher Mind with his orb of clarity and consciousness. So when humans band together, they can generate a double emergence phenomenon.

Most people's first impulse when they hear about a lame-sounding new startup idea is to make fun of it. Even a lot of people who should know better.

To help us answer that question, let’s bring in the Johnsons. (A family that serves as an example.)