Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.