During the course of our lives, learning becomes detached from creating experiences and getting feedback.

FORBES: How Gamification Kills Classroom Training

When violence suddenly ruptures the course of our lives, we tend to tell ourselves stories in order to make it more explicable.

NEWYORKER: A Loaded Gun

But we have very little effective control over the course of our lives, and the uncertainty in which we must live is being worsened by policies devised to deal with the financial crisis.

BBC: A Point of View: The revolution of capitalism

He believes this quirk of our consciousness imbues our lives with a sense of cosmic significance that over the course of history has resulted in a species that works harder not just to survive but to flourish and thrive.

CNN: Can ideas get you high?

Of course, foreign aid saves lives, and maximizing the effectiveness of our assistance should remain a priority of future Republican and Democratic administrations.

FORBES: At the UN Sustainable Development Summit, Private Sector Advocates Must Be Heard

As well as, of course, inspiring those three minute pop ballads that now make up the soundtrack of our lives.

FORBES: Sex and Love and The Business of "I Do"

The course of events that can lead to financial struggles in our lives has to do with not following basic rules such as, not spending more than we take in, sticking to a budget consistently, and saving.

FORBES: Being Financially Fit Can Help Your Heart

Of course it should be the season every day to stop and ponder what we are using our short lives to accomplish, what choices we are making and what we are actually getting done.

FORBES: This Is the Season?