http://incharacter.org/review/stoicism-is-just-so-yesterday/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704009804575309610811148630.htmlWhat's interesting is the way both "The Rational Optimist" and "Wrong" converge on the idea of openness as fundamental to progress. For Mr. Ridley, the market for ideas needs to be as open as possible in order to breed ingenuity from collaboration; for Mr. Freedman, this market needs to be doggedly open about its errors as a positive step toward reliability.
http://www.hallahus.se/stilhistoria/takpapp.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8682515?dopt=Abstract if you’re impulsive, bored easily or ever suspected you might have ADHD or BPD, you most likely have the DRD4 7R gene (or one that does roughly the same thing)