About society, its laws and problems, personal freedom and the role of the state, ideal and real.
We understand each other, including the intentions and the feeling of others. How we do it? What makes us feel the same way? The scientists discovered that there are specialized neurons that are activated in primates when they observe actions of others.
Life wisdom comes to each of us only with time, after one tried everything he dared, and failed, and succeeded, and failed again.
Focus on the goal is a powerful tool that helps to overcome insurmountable obstacles. But one has to be smart enough to see the limits of the approach and adjust the course or roll back the effort at all. Ability to do it is called wisdom.
Fair competition is great. But it is based on the assumption that the starting conditions for the competitors were fair too. Well, how often this assumption is correct in the real life?
Bill Gates is worth listening. He is smart and has access to the best sources of information. He also does a lot for the humanity and does what he can to secure the great future for our children and greatchildren.
Parenting is a full-time job with great responsibility, a lot of risks and low reward. Well, we don’t think so when start doing it. And that is good. Otherwise, very few people would do it.
War is bad by any account. Once it has touched you, you become convinced that those who wage it have no excuses.
Communism fueling my hope again. It happened many times in the history when seemingly discarded and almost forgotten ideas came back again on a new level of understanding.
Pyramids, Stonehenge, Göbekli Tepe. Why spend so much time and energy? What was the motivation for building them?
Truth is not relative, and yet we discover that it changes as we learn new facts. Even facts seem to depend on the interpretation.