For one source of insight, try "Feud," on FX, a barbed and bittersweet fable about female self-sabotage.
For calm and insight, try Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China (WW Norton) translated by David Hinton.
For insight, try this experiment with a group: Select a random characteristic, such as eye color, height, left/right-handedness.
If social media doesn't reveal many insights, try your personal connections – do you know anyone who might be able to help you?
This is not to say that many of the parenting books and parenting methods and parenting tips and parenting know-hows and parenting experts and parenting "fill-in-the-blanks" are not helpful; they often are, supplying encouraging tips and insights to try out and help us along.
Inevitably, this comes at the expense of sophistication of political and historical insight; like trying to ride two horses at the same time, Skogland is having to address an audience who may know nothing about the conflict, and those who know it inside out.
We talked into the wee hours of the night with me challenging her cynicism, and with me, armed with profound philosophical and theological insight, passionately trying to convince her that she and her life were of immeasurable significance —but, to no avail.
Planck was led to this radically new insight by trying to explain the puzzling observation of the amount of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a hot body and, in particular, the dependence of the intensity of this incandescent radiation on temperature and on frequency.
Backed by the new Conservative government, a hodgepodge crew of social scientists, psychologists, and data nerds, calling themselves the Behavioural Insights Team, tried to find opportunities for government savings and other improvements through simple tweaks.
Here's Allen's list if you'd like to get a better idea of what Automated Insights is trying to do.
Holiday deals website FamilyBreakFinder has collected every country's tourism slogan and plotted them on a new map (although 38 don't have one, including North Korea and, more surprisingly, Sweden) – an amusing insight into how countries try to sell themselves.
