When people help build the goals, they pursue them differently. That shift, from spectator to contributor, is what the final Pillars post is all about. If you missed it Thursday, the post + a free worksheet are waiting for you. 🔗 cultureofbelief.com/creating… #CultureofBelief

Second only to the teachers in the classroom, the next most influential adult at school is the principal. The learning in the building rises & falls with the lead learner and the learning leader. Principals, learning IS the job.

Harvard has been following the same group of men since 1938. Eighty-plus years of data on who thrives at 80. The number one predictor was not IQ, income, or fame. 🧵

Doing absolutely nothing is one of the best things you can do for your nervous system...

Gloria Steinem, the writer and activist who helped found this magazine before she became the public face of the American women’s movement, died Wednesday at her home in New York City. She was 92. Her foundation announced the news Thursday morning, saying she passed away peacefully, surrounded by some of the many who loved her. Of all the people whose talent developed here in the early years of ‘New York,’ Steinem stood apart. Steinem certainly built a legacy as a writer, but her life, of course, took another direction, that of an activist. What remains particularly fascinating is seeing her rising consciousness appear in our own pages. Clay Felker, our founding editor, was known for finding up-and-coming writers. At the start of 1968, as Felker attempted to get ‘New York’ off the ground, his attack team included a pair of show-horse writers he’d known from his time at ‘Esquire’ and the ‘Herald Tribune’: Tom Wolfe and Gloria Steinem. The three of them went to, as Steinem later said, “countless lunches that we referred to as tap-dancing for rich people.” They were pitching, she explained, “the essence of New York. When you come right down to it, the New York ‘Times’ is also national, and certainly ‘The New Yorker’ is. Our hearts were in the writing and the spirit of New York.” The first issue appeared that spring, dated April 8, 1968. Four small and discreet bylines appeared on the cover, Wolfe’s and Steinem’s among them.