Sublime

Alberti had an engineer’s instinct for collaboration and, like Leonardo, was “a lover of friendship” and “open-hearted,” according to the scholar Anthony Grafton. He also honed the skills of courtiership. Interested in every art and technology, he would grill people from all walks of life, from cobblers to university scholars, to learn their secret

Hollywood Hills, preferably with guest bedrooms, a hot tub, and a location near the clubs on Sunset. Next we needed to hand-select the best in the community to live with us. Perhaps I shouldn’t have trusted Mystery again. But this time, I wouldn’t let myself be dependent on him. His name wasn’t going to be on the lease. Neither would mine, for that

Core Drive 5: Social Influence & Relatedness is a Right Brain Core Drive that bases its success off our desires to connect and compare with one another.

Curiosity, we argue, is a capacity to connect—to build knowledge networks. Curiosity builds relationships between pieces of knowledge as much as between the people who want to know them. For this reason, we characterize curiosity as “edgework”—constantly laying down relationships between ideas, experiences, concepts, and objects in the world. Impor

It was never my intention to change my personality or walk through the world under an assumed identity. In fact, I was happy with myself and my life. That is, until an innocent phone call (it always starts with an innocent phone call) led me on a journey into one of the oddest and most exciting underground communities that, in more than a dozen yea

Eric realized he was investing in outcomes by making sure other people were always happy with him. This had prevented Eric from standing up to people who mistreated him, but it also prevented him from getting genuinely close with anyone and sharing things about himself they might not like. Eric decided to end his loneliness by opening

“We really want to break this pattern,” Blake says. “The less information I have on you, the better, and the fewer actions you take, the less information I have.”

Alan enjoyed conversing with all manner of patrons at his bar, but he gravitated toward those with whom he could discuss books, the arts, and the pressing events of the day.