• What Television Will Look Like in 2025 - http://www.wired.com/2014/05/neil-hunt/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email

• The Best Commencement Speeches Ever - 300 compiled by NPR dating back to 1774.  A beautiful online app with nice user friendly navigation and layout.  - http://apps.npr.org/commencement/

• Where Do Our Thoughts Physically Exist? - http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/659799-where-do-our-thoughts-physically-exist/

• Does traveling make you more optimistic? Kirk Boyd explains why it does. - http://bit.ly/1hihKAv

• Living an undivided life:  On Being - http://bit.ly/1gtZ4iB 

• Smart Change: Five Tools to Create New and Sustainable Habits in Yourself and Others  - by Art Markman, PhD.  This is the second of a trilogy of books I have been reading on understanding how our brains operate in a conscious and subconscious way to create automatic habitual patterns (refer Joe Dispenza's book from the last TSW issue).  Professor Markman does a great job in giving very practical advice in how to understand where our habits are coming from and how to reprogram our subconscious driven behaviors in order to break unwanted habits or create new ones.  He also points out (as does Dispenza), that many habits are good - we benefit every day by our subconscious executing all types of daily tasks and skills so that our brains conserve energy and we increase our efficiency.  Unfortunately, for bad habits, that automatic execution can be real hindrance to our physical and mental health.  Whereas Dispenza comes from a neuroscience / metaphysics standpoint, Markman explains this material from a more traditional psychology perspective that some readers may prefer.  

• The Importance of Kindness:  Animated adaptation of a commencement speech given by author George Saunders at Syracuse University, May 2013. http://youtu.be/-1KCzrTg9ic  Here is the actual speech in its entirety:  http://youtu.be/ruJWd_m-LgY

• Why Don't We All Have Cancer? - A question that makes perfect sense once you start thinking of our bodies as a constantly replicating collective of cells.  -http://youtu.be/Qja4z1HGDQo

• Fareed Zakaria on Staying Competitive in the Knowledge Economy - http://bigthink.com/big-think-gesf/fareed-zakaria-on-staying-competitive-in-the-knowledge-economy

• Wendy Warner - Russian Music for Cello & Piano - one of my favorite instrument combinations and done with beautiful emotion on this terrific disc.
  
  
• José Luís Bieito - Reflections - a very modern classical guitar record.  If you are looking for a change of pace from the Spanish masters, give this one a try.  
  
  
• John Wesley - Oxford - singer song writer Wesley's live version of Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes on this disc is very good.
  
  
• Cedar Walton - The Trio Vol. 3 - a jazz mainstay on the New York jazz scene for many years.  I used to go hear him at Bradley's Jazz Club in the Village during my MBA days in NYC.  
  
  
• Audio Interview of Seth Godin on Vulnerability, Creative Courage, and How to Dance with the Fear: A Children's Book for Grownups - http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/05/20/seth-godin-debbie-millman-interview/

• "A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions, and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity." - Lawrence Kushner

• "Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre

• "Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon

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