Most people – maybe more than you think – are peace- and love-seeking creatures who are sometimes caught in bad situations. The most practical thing you can do, even in hard times, is to lead with curiosity, lead with respect, work hard to understand the people you might be taught to detest.

“That means seeing people with generous eyes, offering... See more

Reading across a genres, subjects, and perspectives has the power to pop the filter bubbles that many of us increasingly find ourselves in, both online and off. It’s how we develop a healthy intellectual humility, where no single ideology or belief system monopolises truth.

We often run into a lot of problems, when we start believing that our truth is THE TRUTH; when we start mistaking our beliefs for reality.

That moment—when “my truth” becomes the truth —is often when curiosity dies and conflict begins.

It’s subtle, too. We don’t usually notice it happening.

One day we’re exploring, the next we’re defending a fixed... See more

When we talk with others, we have no choice but to default to new age or religious language which carries a lot of cultural baggage. Words help us make sense of what we’re experiencing, but they also limit us.

What we need is twofold: to develop our own personal dialect for how we sense and communicate the nonordinary, and to cultivate the skill of... See more