FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆
New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!
Jeffrey Sachs on tariffs: "If you take your credit card and you go shopping and you run up a large credit card debt, you’re running a trade deficit with all those shops. Now, it would be pretty strange if you then blamed all the shop owners for having sold you all those things."
We shouldn’t ask kids what they want to be when they grow up. It encourages them to define themselves in terms of work.
Who we become is not a question of career—it’s a matter of character.
The highest aspiration is to be a person of generosity, integrity, humility, and wisdom.
Viktor Frankl—a Holocaust survivor who wrote the influential Man’s Search for Meaning—his approach starts by inverting the original question: “Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.” In other words, put aside your need to find a formula for your own gratification and instead see the world’s need for you to find meaning—so that you can do more with your life and benefit the world.
In that spirit of service, Frankl put forward three practical ways of discovering meaning:
•Create something or accomplish a significant task—you will make meaning simply in the process of striving for an accomplishment.
•Experience something fully or love someone deeply—stop thinking about yourself and dive into an external experience or a relationship with another person.
•Adopt an attitude of strength and courage toward unavoidable suffering—resolve to learn from your pain.
One last point I’d make is that having meaning in life can protect you to a degree when suffering inevitably comes your way. A theme that emerges throughout Haidt’s work is a critique of “safetyism,” the belief that safety is a sacred value, and of the trend among parents and schools to elevate this value above others. Safetyism, in his analysis, is a direct consequence of a decline in people’s sense of life’s meaning, because meaning makes sense of suffering—so if you lack meaning to help you cope with suffering, then safetyism is the reflexive response, to try to provide a shield against suffering.
In other words, when pain has no seeming purpose, the only logical course of action is to fight against it. In a doomed effort to forestall suffering, we protect our kids from conflict, danger, and anything that might offend or alarm them. This strategy has proven catastrophic for happiness: It leaves young people ill-prepared for the inevitable threats and challenges that everyone has to face, and for the suffering that is impossible to avoid in our highly complex world. The only reliable way to travel through that world with courage and hope is to do the work to find meaning, and encourage those we love to do so as well.
It’s one of the most spectacular golf courses in the world - the magnificent Old Head Golf Links, Kinsale, County Cork on the south coast of Ireland ���🇪⛳️☘️
@johnarnold Foundations should serve as society’s risk capital, and deploying 100% of their endowment aligned to mission is vital given how small the philanthropic giving pool is versus the size of the capital markets.
Banning smartphones in schools is good for learning and well-being.
New study of 400+ middle schools in Norway: after smartphone bans, girls had fewer mental health issues & better grades. Boys and girls were less likely to be bullied.
Smartphones belong at home or in lockers.
NEWS: The $4 billion California Emdowment goes ‘all in’ on impact
The foundation becomes one of the largest to commit to aligning its full endowment with his health and racial equity mission.
From @ARiquier up on @ImpactAlpha
https://t.co/yqTGpxPWXJ
What Muffet McGraw accomplished in building ND Women’s Basketball is one of the great moments in ND sports history. To recognize her with a statue on campus is well deserved. Congratulations my friend. Go IRISH! @ndwbb
Wow.
Incredible story told by Mitchell Robsinon’s high school coach Butch Stockton.
Stockton explains his wife passed away in September and that Robinson visited her every day she was in the hospital.
At the funeral, Mitch said he’d invite Butch to live with him in NY. Stockton took him up on the offer and has been Robinson’s roommate since the start of the season.
Join the Pulte Institute as we celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week. As people from around the world come together to foster economic growth, the Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Minor will host two events here on campus on November 16th. Register: https://t.co/DHkQ0hCoHW.