The key is to know how to fail successfully.
About Angela Noel Lawson
Our Search for Certainty: Cognitive Bias Series
Our brains fixate on the first and easiest answer. Only by paying attention, expending the energy, and by allowing the possibility of “unbelief” can we find the truth.
Our brains fixate on the first and easiest answer. Only by paying attention, expending the energy, and by allowing the possibility of “unbelief” can we find the truth.
Why Sarah Silverman is Pretty Radical and Currently My Hero
By doing the work, spending the time, and trying to understand, she changed the same old combative narrative. She performed a radical act of empathy.
By doing the work, spending the time, and trying to understand, she changed the same old combative narrative. She performed a radical act of empathy.
Making a Stranger into a Friend: Cognitive Bias Series
Mutual, authentic, and meaningful relationships begin with good feelings. This can happen through helping or better yet, asking for help.
Mutual, authentic, and meaningful relationships begin with good feelings. This can happen through helping or better yet, asking for help.
Cognitive Bias Series: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
We need to expand our ability to see reality, to stop and question ourselves and others, so we can better evaluate the cost.
We need to expand our ability to see reality, to stop and question ourselves and others, so we can better evaluate the cost.
The Seductive Power of Coffee and Clinging
Through the lens of my embarrassment, I made wild assumptions and misinterpreted someone's actions.
Through the lens of my embarrassment, I made wild assumptions and misinterpreted someone’s actions.
Taming the Elves in Our Brains
The Cognitive Bias Series, Part One
The Cognitive Bias Series, Part One
Why Participation Matters So Much More Than Winning
How do you feel about participation trophies?
How do you feel about participation trophies?
Five Essential Qualities of Everyday Leadership
Leaders inspire devotion by seeing leadership not as a job, but as a calling.
Leaders inspire devotion by seeing leadership not as a job, but as a calling.
Two Mathematics Concepts You Should be Thinking About
These two concepts form an elegant metaphor for life and human interactions.
These two concepts form an elegant metaphor for life and human interactions.
Why Dragons are Terrible Role Models for Humans
Are we protecting things we cannot possibly make use of because of some fear that without them we’ve lost our power?
Are we protecting things we cannot possibly make use of because of some fear that without them we’ve lost our power?
What’s in a Name? Identity, Security, and a Pat-Down
I'm grateful for moments of good in a crappy situation.
I’m grateful for moments of good in a crappy situation.
Sharing the Good
Are you ready for your five minute miracle?
Are you ready for your five minute miracle?
Inventing Success One Good Idea at a Time
The best way to educate yourself in creating is to fail.
The best way to educate yourself in creating is to fail.
A Parenting Dilemma: Trust, Safety, and Respect
We teach our children respect by respecting them.
We teach our children respect by respecting them.
Three Different Stories, One Common Thread
To do something about the problems of the world, we have to see them as our problems, not someone else’s.
To do something about the problems of the world, we have to see them as our problems, not someone else’s.