How to Set Your Ideas Up for Success
Everyone wants to be the person trusted to solve “THE” problem. Great stories that grow into legend have their roots in someone solving a vexing problem. One great example is that of Katherine Johnson, whose story is told in the current movie Hidden Figures. She was an African-American mathematician working in NASA’s then segregated computer…
How A Gap Year Experience Positions a Student to Flourish in College
Each August around 20 million people head off to their college experience. In an odd paradox college is both more accessible and more risky than it has ever been. From the founding days of our country until the end of World War II the college experience was mostly reserved for the very wealthy. The post…
What is the Good Life?
This week, Fellows Class 18 learned about virtue, ethics, and moral knowledge. This class explored what the good life is and how we are to live the good life now. The world has countless ways to define what the good life is. For some, it may be through simply doing meaningful things, but for others,…