Facial Feedback Hypothesis

A hypothesis is a guess that has agreed to be tested. Facial Feedback Hypothesis is a guess worth the experiment.

Whether the hypothesis is finally true matters less than what it teaches you to notice. Good hypotheses are like good questions — they rearrange the furniture of the mind even when they are wrong.

What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.

A good librarian is a quiet revolutionary. She knows that a child with a borrowing card and a long afternoon is more dangerous to ignorance than any syllabus.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. The name is new; the wisdom stood at bus stops long before either of us.