Rational Thinking – The Mission Newsletter, 11/16/18 “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” -C. S. Lewis #FridayFunday 6 Biases Holding You Back From Rational Thinking – “Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common […]

Rethinking How We Measure Productivity – The Mission Newsletter, 11/9/18 “It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.” ―Michael Grant Fresh Out of the Oven… Willpower Doesn’t Work. Here’s the Key to Being More Productive According to Neuroscience. “Instead of blindly executing one […]

“Every human has four endowments — self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.” -Stephen Covey The Mission Newsletter, 11/2/18 Get the Creative Juices Flowing with These Reads… How to Take Your Creativity to New Levels “When confronted with a creative thinking situation — and when processing the […]

In the new film Ex Machina, a reclusive billionaire invents a robotic artificial intelligence. To test whether his invention is indistinguishable from a human being, he helicopters-in a young engineer to see if he falls in love with the robot. Today, making machines and humans indistinguishable from each other is no longer science fiction, it’s good […]