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Perfume is so important. The wind just carried someone’s perfume from 3 houses away

There exists a socially prescribed timetable for the ordering of major life events: a time in then lifespan when men and women are expected to marry, a time to raise children, a time to retire. Because it’s socially prescribed it can change

The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, is my idea of God

A lightbulb is capable of shining light on the room around it but not on the power which illuminates it, in the same way we are capable of comprehending the world around us but not the consciousness that animates us

We need to look for what we’re looking for in the right place even if it’s hard to look for it there

You’re never alone or helpless - the force that guides the stars guides you too

Consciousness- an all pervading blissful awareness inherent in everybody and everything

The systems we set up to ensure who gets ahead aren’t particularly efficient. We think that starting all star leagues and gifted programs as early as possible is the best way of ensuring that no talent slips through the cracks. Because we so profoundly personalize success we miss opportunities to lift others unto the top round. We make rules that frustrate achievement, we prematurely write off people as failures, we are much too in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail, and most of all we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all (society) play in determining who makes it and who doesn’t. We cling to the idea that success is a function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don’t matter at all.

The notion that it is the best and brightest who effortlessly rise to the top is much too simplistic. People are beneficiaries of different types of opportunities that play a part in their success. This is referred to as the “Matthew effect” - after the New Testament verse in Matthew “for unto everyone that hath shall be given and he shall have abundance but from him that hath not shall be taken away that which he hath”. It is those who are successful who are most likely to be given the special opportunities that lead to further success, it’s the rich that get the biggest tax breaks, it’s the best students that get the best teaching and the most attention. Success is that result of what sociologists like to call “a cumulative advantage”.a

People don’t rise from nothing. We do owe something to parentage and patronage. People may look like they do it all by themselves but they are merely the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn to work hard and make sense of the world in a way that others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up, the culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebearers shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine.

Biologists often talks about the ecology of an organism. The tallest oak in the forest is not the tallest because it grew from the heartiest acorn. It is also the tallest because no other trees blocked its sunlight because the soil around it was deep and rich because no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling and because no lumberjack cut it down before it matured.

When women are relaxing they go to the right part of the brain that stimulates estrogen and also stimulates a oxytocin. Oxytocin is the hormone that lowers stress in women

When a woman is stressed, blood flow goes to that “second floor” of all memories. In order to get off that floor she has to get rid of that stress. Under moderate stress, women’s brains have 8 times the amount of blood flow to the emotional part of the brain which goes to the hippocampus. Under moderate stress women have a stronger emotional reaction. Under big stress men have a stronger emotional reaction. Big stress for a man is a problem he cannot solve or forget. Biologically as soon as men feels powerless his testosterone converts to estrogen and floods his brain with fear and anger. When men go to their female hormones they lose control of their masculine hormones and testosterone drops. Testosterone converts to estrogen through a enzyme called aromatase.

Women have a better and bigger memory, the hippocampus in a woman’s brain is twice as big as mans brain

All men who are depressed have low testosterone

For men, dopamine increases testosterone, and testosterone in men reduces stress

Perfectionism is the enemy of action

Right now scientists are calling our gut or second brain. Research has revealed that there are 200 million neurons in our gut which it equivalent to the size of a dogs brain.

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