Research on the 'end of history illusion' shows that humans dramatically overestimate how much they will change in the future relative to how much they actually changed in the past: people recall substantial personality and value changes over the previous decade but predict they will remain largely unchanged over the next decade.

A leadership handbook created with AI assistance—containing personal values, guiding principles, humor style, and biographical narrative—allows students to develop deeper self-knowledge and intentionality about their leadership identity.

Beauty is not about perfection but about presence and the feeling of being deeply alive; in fact, beauty might be understood as the antidote to perfection.

The concept of authenticity is difficult to define in concrete terms, but people reliably recognize and feel it when it is present, making it a practical guide for living even without precise definition.

In the 'Humor, Serious Business' class, the speaker and teaching team have shifted the ratio of teacher effort from 80% repetitive feedback (given year to year with minimal change) to only 20% truly elevated or new content, creating inefficiency that wastes human potential and opportunity for connection.

Boldness is not primarily about courage or perfection, but rather about being open to change and having the conviction to manifest your authentic self in the world, even when uncertain.

Students report using AI primarily for ideation and augmentation of thinking rather than elimination of cognitive thinking, suggesting AI can be designed as a cognitive partner that enhances rather than replaces human reasoning.

At any given moment, a person has a choice between actions and ways of showing up that either move them closer to their authentic spirit or further away from it, giving them real agency in aligning with their core self.

When asked if they use AI to help with assessments, students self-report at only 15%, but the speaker believes the actual rate is 100%, indicating either pervasive underreporting or a gap between student perception of 'cheating' vs 'augmenting cognition'.

When love and grace exist in relationships, they enable more thoughtful and compassionate responses even in difficult situations, allowing people to move from reactivity (anger, blame) to growth-oriented frames.

Beautiful moments are visually vivid, sensorially tagged, and neurologically distinct from happy moments, making them more memorable and creating enriched, sustained perception of those moments.

When people share beautiful moments daily (either in pairs or in small groups), they show increases in everyday mindfulness and self-awareness, and have 20% greater memory accuracy of those moments two months later compared to baseline.

Wildflower (a network of 70+ micro-schools) uses AI-powered machine vision to monitor student movement and engagement, helping teachers detect when children are alone or sedentary and become aware of unconscious biases in their attention allocation.

AI cannot teach us to love, but it can express love, help operationalize love, and allow us to express love in ways that are true to us, more clearly and with more care.

AI can be banal or beautiful, automate or amplify, flatten our humanity or help it flourish—the choice of how to design and use AI is fundamentally ours to make.

Knowing people's favorite songs and having them available for moments of crossing over (end of life) helps people transition peacefully, and the sense of sound is the last to go even in coma, making music a powerful connector in final moments.

When people choose to put down technology and just be present with another person, especially in moments of crossing over or difficulty, that human presence and attention is the most powerful antidote to technology that has gone awry.

The speaker became a death doula two years ago and has been honored to be present in moments of crossing over and to support those holding the hands of people who are dying.

The speaker grew up listening to her mother, a 50-year hospice volunteer, share stories at the dinner table about people who were dying, which shaped her understanding of regret, authenticity, and living well.

Teaching AI for human well-being to a class of half engineers and half business school students revealed that none of the students took the class for technical abilities, but rather to understand what it means to be human, what meaning and life are, and what creates a meaningful life.