EmpoweredEd2020

Research finds highly intelligent individuals prefer to socialize less than the rest of us. I recently read a short article by Sarah Sloat. Sarah is a writer based in Brooklyn. She has previously written for The New Republic, Pacific Standard, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. I like to socialize so hopefully that doesn’t cast doubts on my intelligence. Sarah writes, psychologists have a pretty good idea of what typically makes a human happy. Dancing  delights us . Being in  nature brings us joy . And, for most people, frequent contact with  good friends  makes us feel content. That is, unless you’re really, really smart. In a 2016 paper published in the  British Journal of Psychology , researchers Norman Li and Satoshi Kanazawa report that highly intelligent people experience lower life satisfaction when they socialize with friends more frequently. These are the  Sherlocks  and the  Newt Scamanders  of the world — the very intelligent few w...

The generation that changed the world in the 1960s is entering retirement  and,  with decades of life ahead, reclaiming what was once rightfully theirs:  pop culture.                                                                                                                                          Every January, across New York City and Los Angeles, there is a flurry of lunches, dinners, special screenings, red carpets, Q&As, and celebrity meet-and-greets as studio executives court the rarified Oscar voter. An Academy Award nomination can increase a movie’s profit by tens of millions, sire new Hollywood royalty, and establis...