I Don't Think We Should Go Around

Because Cheating Is Easier When We Can Justify Our Behavior, People Often Cheat In Small Amounts: We Can Come Up With An Excuse For Stealing Post-it Notes, But It Is Much More Difficult To Come Up With An Excuse For Taking $10,000 From Petty Cash.

The Things That Motivate Us Are To Help Other People, To Feel That We're Useful, To Feel That We're Getting Better, To Feel That We Are Kind Of Living To Our Potential, To Get A Sense Of Meaning. All Of Those Things Are Positive.

Disasters Are Usually A Good Time To Re-examine What We've Done So Far, What Mistakes We've Made, And What Improvements Should Come Next.

Ownership Is Not Limited To Material Things. It Can Also Apply To Points Of View. Once We Take Ownership Of An Idea - Whether It’s About Politics Or Sports - What Do We Do? We Love It Perhaps More Than We Should. We Prize It More Than It Is Worth. And Most Frequently, We Have Trouble Letting Go Of It Because We Can’t Stand The Idea Of Its Loss. What Are We Left With Then? An Ideology - Rigid And Unyielding.

When Parents Have College Savings Accounts For Their Kids, Their Kids Show Higher Social And Cognitive Performance.