Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.

Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

We're exposed and carry in our bodies multiple chemicals, and we have to understand how they interact. Both how they individually interact and the thousands of effects they can produce when they interact with the receptors that run our bodies.

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.