The amazing true story of Beate Serota

In a previous article I wrote about humanity’s looming troubles. But as I have said I am optimistic.  Here is an inspiring story of a young girl’s special accomplishment -one of many she did – , giving all of us hope. She was just 22 when she graduates from Mills College in Oakland at the end of the war with japan in 1945.  She was fluent…

Geniuses Among Us

There is a major variation from the norm in temperament that seems to be present in many, and perhaps all, creative geniuses.  This variant lies beyond the normally occurring variability of individual temperaments – a variability that, from an evolutionary standpoint, confers flexibility and resilience in the survival of the tribe as a whole.  The extreme variant of…