The very act of stopping to think of what your BPOD is helps to teach gratitude.
Stopping to think about the ethics and unintended consequences of new technology.
We just get on and muddle through, without stopping to think too hard about it.
"You wonder sometimes whether they're stopping to think," he said yesterday.
Without stopping to think, Mr. de Bernon stepped into the crowd, he recalled.
Harvard scientists are getting closer to an answer, with research showing that people's first response is to cooperate and that stopping to think encourages selfishness.
As a result, they are more likely to act on impulse, without stopping to think things through or fully consider the consequences of their actions.
"We marvel at the pyramids," he writes, "without stopping to think too much about the political system that made them possible.
Finally, as you drive around this continent, it's worth stopping to think about some of the names you'll see on creeks, roads and beaches.
