David Brooks examines the causes of the widening gap between the rich and the poor:
When you look at these causes, you keep coming back to one them: human capital. The people who do well not only possess skills that can be measured on tests, they have self-discipline, which is twice as important as IQ in predicting academic achievement, according to a study by Angela Duckworth and Martin Seligman...
If there's one thing that leaps out of all the brain literature, it is that, as psychologist Daniel J. Siegel, director of the Center for Human Development, puts it, "emotion serves as the central organizing process within the brain." Kids learn from people they love. If we want young people to develop the social and self-regulating skills they need to thrive, we need to establish stable long-term relationships between love-hungry children and love-providing adults...
I started out in the company of economic data, but the closer you get to the core issue, the further you venture out into the primitive realm of love.
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