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...really enriched our life at Yale," says Kate Stith, acting dean of the law school. "He's brought a lot of insight to the school on the state of the current global economic environment...
...Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 2007 book of that name) that can do the most damage. That does not mean we should all live, risk averse, cowering in a cave of our own making. It does mean that it behooves us to listen to those who, based on knowledge and insight, warn us of what might go wrong. There is no figure in myth more tragic than Cassandra, granted the gift of prophecy, but doomed never to be believed. Myth - not our all-too-real lives - is where such figures belong...
...Madden took a position as a color commentator for CBS, immediately finding success with his blend of sharp technical insight and muddled diction. Among the classic phrases attributed to him: "He was standing in the hole waiting for something to develop...and WHAP!, he got developed." "Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon." He also coined the phrase "doink...
...therapy may actually be making us miserable: "Since Freud, most forms of therapy have maintained that the best way to deal with a problem or trauma is to concentrate on it. Through this 'processing,' the theory goes, you'll eventually gain insight and feel wiser, and hopefully better. Accordingly, most people ... think they're more or less obliged to chew over a breakup or career reversal ... [Yet], directing your attention away from a negative experience ... can be a superior coping strategy...
...both of two things," said Bitz in her statement, "get a student to embrace qualities of their character (such as beauty or courage) about which they have doubt or assist them in recognizing qualities that are unproductive (such as selfishness or conceit) about which they have little insight...