My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.