>> The Power Paradox. “My own research has found that people with power tend to behave like patients who have damaged their brain’s orbitofrontal cortex…. Power is given to those individuals, groups, or nations who advance the interests of the greater good in socially intelligent fashion. Yet, having power renders many individuals as poorly attuned to others as your garden-variety frontal lobe patient. What people want from leaders—social intelligence—is what is damaged by the experience of power.”

>> Poetry as punishment? High school students trash a house Robert Frost summered in, get sentenced to lessons on Frost’s poetry. (thanks Roz)

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