1: On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members.

The disaster stunned the nation and triggered an intensive investigation into what went wrong. President Ronald Reagan appointed a presidential commission to determine the cause of the disaster.

The hearings were broadcast on television nationwide.

According to Erik Peterson and Tim Riesterer in  Conversations That Win the Complex … continue reading

Richard Feynman was a theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

A brilliant thinker, without a doubt.

His true genius, however, was his ability to convey complex ideas in simple, elegant ways, as described by Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.

“He observed that complexity and jargon,” Sahil notes, “are often used to … continue reading