THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Power

“Power should answer by action, not by speech.” - AUSTIN O'MALLEY

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Stop Your Power Trip Before It Starts

Everything in moderation. My late father, a physician, always emphasized that to his patients. While Dad was focusing more on what people ate or drank, he could easily have been talking about how people behave.

I was reminded of Dad's advice when I read Jonah Lehrer's fine essay in the Wall Street Journal discussing the "paradox of power," a syndrome that turns people in authority into dictators. Lehrer quotes Dr. Dacher Keltner, a psychologist at the University of California, who says, "When you give people power, they basically start acting like fools."

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