MentorMinds
Eighteen of Boston’s most powerful men convened to determine whether a young enslaved woman could possibly have written her own poems. She had — and better than any of them could.
She failed at business twice, raised fourteen children, and then walked to Jerusalem. The first autobiography in English belongs to a woman everyone called too much.
Four minds — a Stoic senator, a Stoic emperor, a Rough Rider, and a survivor of Auschwitz — sit down to ask why a full calendar can feel so empty.
A minister has betrayed the ruler who raised him. Confucius counsels self-examination and moral example; Machiavelli counsels swift, exemplary punishment. Both cannot be entirely right.
A prince left a palace to face the one thing wealth could not solve — and came back with a method, not a religion.
Freud mapped what we repress. Jung asked the larger question: who are you trying to become — and what have you disowned to avoid it?
One thought the good life begins by questioning everything you were taught. The other thought it begins by honoring it. Both were right, and neither yielded.
Three months of schooling, 1,093 patents — and the invention that mattered most was the invention factory itself.
Much of his map was redrawn — but he found the territory: the mind keeps secrets from itself.
Psychology studied the broken; he insisted on studying the best — and found a hierarchy with your name on it.