by Mac Kroupensky | Embrace your greatness, Chatting with Mac, Success, Happiness, Habits, Meditation, Meditate
What I'm currently reading. I'm immersed in Walter Isaacson's biography of Albert Einstein. I'm at the period between 1933 and 1936, when Hitler came to power and unleashed a fierce anti-Semitic campaign, forcing Einstein to leave his native...
by Mac Kroupensky | Love, Science, Collaboration, Spirituality, Family, Future, Habits, Meditate, Motivation, Values
What I'm Reading This week I'm reading another book by Walter Isaacson, the biographer of Leonardo Da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Elon Musk. This time it's the book «The Code of Life: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human...".
by Mac Kroupensky | Science, Humanities, social sciences, Education, Innovation, Meditate, Technology, Cutting-edge technology
What I'm Reading This week I'm reading «The Mind and the Brain» by Jeffrey M. Schwartz. He was one of the pioneers in humanizing psychiatry by understanding and promoting the plasticity of the mind. He created the OCD center at the University of...
by Mac Kroupensky | Embrace your greatness, Humanities, Culture, Education, Workshop Exercise, Energy, Spirituality, Happiness, Habits, Meditation, Meditate, Motivation, Productivity
To be a great leader, one must first be a great human being, and that requires self-mastery. One of the basic tools for acquiring it is the discipline of meditation. There are various techniques, but all are based on breathing. It is breathing...
by Mac Kroupensky | Love, Humanities, social sciences, Creativity, Culture, Online Courses, Education, Job, Spirituality, Family, Happiness, Future, Meditate, Motivation, Cheers, Elderly, Values, Vulnerability
We are obsessed with youth and we look down on the virtue of age. We act as if people over 50 are no longer valuable. That they are obsolete, disposable old people. And that they should be hidden behind high walls so we don't see them, lest they remind us that...
by Mac Kroupensky | Embrace your greatness, Humanities, social sciences, Collaboration, Culture, Education, Energy, Spirituality, Happiness, Habits, Meditation, Meditate, Motivation, Cheers, Values
The path to emotional freedom goes through three stages. First, we are dependent; then, we break free from that dependence and become independent, and finally, we develop the power of love and become interdependent. The painful thing is that much of...
