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Nicholas A. Christakis

"I think it is terribly dangerous for an artist [or a scientist, I would add] to fulfill other people's expectations." A classic meditation by David Bowie, worth listening to.

David Bowie's Advice to Young Artists

"Never work for other people!" "If you feel save in the area you're working in, you're not working in the right area."Excerpts from the Michael Apted DVD "In...

4:17 PM · Apr 12, 2022

TheGreatWorkProject

@Gr8WorkProject

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Meditation Instructor/Enrichment Teacher with a question regarding your appearance on the television series Through The Wormhole. It’s about the money game you played (“Give or Take.) Would you have a moment to tell the details of this game?

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Nicholas A. Christakis

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@Gr8WorkProject

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paper is here:

Dynamic social networks promote cooperation in experiments with humans | Proceedings of the...

Human populations are both highly cooperative and highly organized. Human interactions are not random but rather are structured in social networks....

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abhishek shandilya

Replying to

and

“Never play to the gallery.”

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