Most Americans and many Europeans equate native Africans with blacks, white Africans with recent intruders, and African racial history with the story of European colonialism and slave trading.

Love from another adult does more than just satisfy us in the present. It ripples back in time for us, repairing, restoring, and renovating an inadequate past.

The evidence for predominantly single domestications in Southwest Asia, but frequent multiple domestications in the Americas, might thus provide more subtle evidence that crops spread more easily out of Southwest Asia than in the Americas.

Disputes need clear paths toward resolution. That is especially so in an idea meritocracy where people are expected to disagree and create paths for resolving disagreements. The Dispute Resolver provides paths for resolving disagreements in an idea-meritocratic way.

As much as others may need to change, or we may want them to change, the only person we can continually inspire, prod, and shape - with any degree of success - is the person in the mirror.

Honesty is a virtue, but it is not a cure-all, and sometimes it can even be detrimental.

God is always seeking to reveal himself to us. He made a verbal proclamation of his nature to Moses, revealing his very self so that Moses’ face shone with supernatural light, Our pursuit of God is successful because he is forever seeking to manifest himself to us.

The leader must own everything in his or her world. There is no one else to blame.

Successful leaders identify their purpose, vision, or cause first. They follow the “Golden Circle” formula which starts with working out their “Why” followed by the “How” and “What”—not the other way around.

If our vow of absolute surrender to God was true and sincere, then it must mean absolute surrender to the divine love to fill me and to be a servant of love to love every child of God around me.