Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.