Quartz’s Law of The Primacy of Feeling: In everyday life, one’s anticipated emotions regarding a decision is a better guide than rational deliberation. Brain science is increasingly appreciating the centrality of emotions as guides to life, and emotions are typically more in line with one’s wishes than rational deliberation, which can be easily disconnected from one’s desires and goals. The upshot: deliberation is cheap, emotions are honest.”—Steve Quartz, California Institute of Technology”If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in Vain.
— Emily Dickinson (1864)
“Brain research tells us that when the fun stops, learning often stops too.”—Judy Willis, M.D., Educational Leadership July 2007”
“What is shared by mass murderers, felony drunk drivers, starving children, head banging laboratory animals, anxious overworked students and all reptiles? . . . They don’t play. What do most Nobel Laureates, historically renowned creative artists, successful multi-career entrepreneurs and animals of superior intelligence have in common? . . . They are full of play throughout their lives.”—Dr. Stuart Brown, M. D., founder The Institute for Play