If you want to peek into your social DNA pool, watch a few hours of home movies. Last night cousin Ray entertained our cousins with Uncle Ray’s prolific movies from the ’50’s and ’60’s, now of course on DVDs, featuring great footage of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins at picnics, weddings, and less significant life events. Each clip documenting the roots of our legacy of humor and community, and how life doesn’t need to be that complicated to be good.

Osho in Love, Freedom and Aloneness makes the point that happiness is the universal experience of existence, our true nature. When we’re unhappy, we don’t lose our existence, we simply eclipse the happiness we are with the unhappiness we create. When we stop creating unhappiness, we simply rediscover our true nature.

At the heart of joy is gratitude.

The Durex Global Sex survey revealed that Americans, who have sex 138 times annually are outpaced by the British who make love an average of 149 times a year, who are surpassed by couples in France (167), the Netherlands (158), Denmark (152) and Canada (150). Those taking their love-making at a more relaxed pace included New Zealanders (135). So much for the quantitative side of the equation.

Authentic humility keeps surfacing as a quality worth cultivating. It’s social DNA that inspires learning, dialogue, and collaboration. Authentic humility listens and suggests perspectives as just that. The question is: Is it possible to have genuine democracy without it?

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John F. Kennedy

Researchers in search of common characteristics among entrepreneurs find that, among other things, “They have trouble imagining failure, and they don’t care what you think.”

The Evangelical Environmental Network is launching a campaign against car makers still producing sinfully fuel inefficient vehicles, branding the campaign with the slogan: What Would Jesus Drive?

It’s designed to provoke pulpit harangues against godless Hummers and the rest of the environmentally unfaithful . Stay tuned.

From Dan Pink this week: New research from the University of Michigan finds that “Older people who are helpful to others reduce their risk of dying by nearly 60 percent compared to peers who provide neither practical help nor emotional support to relatives, neighbors or friends.” The notion that that givers gain is also consistent with research Martin Seligman cites in his book, Authentic Happiness.

In a meeting with senior managers yesterday, we were talking today about the practice of creating policies to cover every instance of poor judgment in organizations.

My observation was that in the busiest intersections where I have seen many actual fatal and near accidents from people trying to run red lights, I have yet to see any accidents when the lights are out and people have to use attention and situational judgment.