Talk about critical thinking. I'm interested in critical feeling: ability to notice when an emotion is helpful, and when it is maladaptive. Talk about leadership, I'm interested in followership. EW trains his assistants to tell him when he is out of line. And he gets them coffee. Give people and objective and have them make the plan. --- Rabbi ep 5 We are impure. Impurity is generative. Trying to be pure can go too far and cause big trouble. Say a blessing before you eat, always. It helps you cultivate gratitude. Religion stops us from thinking that purpose of life is to be happy. Connects us to intergenerational purpose. Jews: 0.25 of 1% of world's population but 25% of Nobel prizes in physics, maybe in science, all fields. Smoking, gay marriage: social changes so fast. Late 1980s Andrew Sullivan wrote first article on gay marriage. --- Biohacker guy 1/100 top chess players are female. Top marathon runners are all from one tribe in North Kenya. Norway and Denmark 10% babies born via IVF!!