It’s the story of Wicked. For Glinda to be seen as good, there must be the opposite of evil, which was projected upon Elphaba.

Most solutions are very simple. The most elegant solutions have a direct line to the problem. However, solutions with the easiest, direct routes to success are routinely bypassed in favor of indirect ones. In an effort to make this idea more concrete, a task that involves ten units of effort is deliberately inflated to 50…

When Adam Smith wrote about economics in the 18th century, the basic premise was that natural resources were limited while human desires were limitless. This is what we call scarcity. As a result, economics became the practice of addressing infinite desires through finite means of production. Hundreds of years later, I’m here to question this…

We like to call this hope, but what if hope is a veil that blinds us to what is occurring in the present moment? What if we are so caught up in the future that we don’t take care of what is in front of us?

To empathize with someone automatically places us in a power dynamic, where someone is suffering, and the other is feeling.

Many conventional relationships feature two individuals connected by something. One would say that love is the currency in the exchange between two individuals, but is that always the case? What if it’s rare?

I think it’s time we changed the definition of selfishness. The conventional definition is based primarily on acquisition and control. Selfishness is a tangible act in which a person takes scarce resources, hoards wealth, demands attention, or exploits others. Consequently, these actions lead to a belief in a zero-sum game in which one person gains…

As we apply meaning to things, we bring order into the chaos of the unknown. The issue with this is that, in most cases, there may not be a clear explanation. When we can’t find what we are looking for, we tend to make it up.

What if I were to tell you that these negative emotions don’t stem from your faults or your bad boss? It comes from a fundamental misinterpretation of good and evil.

Giving to others feels like a zero-sum game when we feel like we are giving too much of ourselves because we can’t find a way to maximize our well-being while fulfilling the moral demand to give.