Don’t let the gray hair fool you.  With a membership of 40 million plus, AARP, formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons, is a force to be reckoned with.  

Just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, at the exclusive Cavallo Point Resort & Spa, a select group of very bright scholars, innovators, and Fortune 500 executives are sitting down to discuss the “future of the wellbeing movement.”  

Winston Churchill once said, “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”  In his new book Flourish, (Free Press: Simon & Shuster, 2011) Martin Seligman, esteemed psychologist and one of the founders of the Positive Psychology Movement, inspires us to become optimists and to get the most out of the lives we have been given.

MIT’s Technology Review Magazine named Jesse Schell one of the world’s top 100 young innovators. Early in his career he was the Creative Director of the Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio where he worked on Disney theme parks and the massively popular kids game Toontown Online. Continue Reading

At a time when the focus in public education is on testing and more testing--- to the detriment of music, the arts, recess, and sports--- a number of experts are warning that we are on the wrong track with our children

Interested in learning how the lessons of John Nash’s gaming theory apply to your personal and business life?  Want to understand the craft and structure behind a Beethoven Sonata, or to know why some scientists theorize that Thomas Jefferson had Asperger’s Syndrome?

You are never too old to learn something new.  And millions of senior citizens are returning to the classroom to prove it.  According to the U.S. Department of Education, the number of college students over the age of 60 has more than doubled.  In fact, today about 10 million older Americans are taking part-time courses, seminars, or other classes.

What’s a “delicious revolution”? Edible Schoolyard founder Alice Waters talks about the value of garden and kitchen experiences in transforming students’ relationship to food. Continue Reading