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...ordinary professor, and that his story is no typical tale of ascent to the zenith of academia. He is a Harvard College Professor of Psychology. He is a recipient of the Royal Society Prize for Science. He is a high school drop out. He is Daniel Gilbert...
...EARLY STUMBLE “I dropped out of high school when I was about 15 years old,” Gilbert says, his voice free of a hint of shame. In fact, he views his greatest triumph as appearing on the list of “Most Famous High School Dropouts,” according to the official Web site for “Stumbling on Happiness...
After dropping out, Gilbert left his family home near Chicago and hitchhiked around the country, growing out his hair and strumming his guitar. While searching for his calling, he read Eastern philosophy, inspiring him to start asking what he terms “questions of the mind...
Ultimately, the questions themselves proved to be his destiny. Unlike a clinical psychologist, Gilbert is more interested in understanding people than in helping them. He’ll never prompt, “Tell me about your relationship with your mother...
...world where Botticellian references are fetishized and primary colors are scoffed at, “Patience” may be required. Any Gilbert and Sullivan experience can be slightly overwhelming, but the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players succeed in making Victorian operetta engaging and accessible for a twenty-first century audience. “Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride,” which ran at the Agassiz Theatre April 3-12, was an ambitious project, but the Players, under director David S. Jewett ’08, engaged the audience from the moment the conductor invited them...