🍎 Why not pay teachers $100,000 per year?
Plus . . . Recommendations galore and how to feel more grateful!
Welcome to the revamped edition of The Pink Report, which reaches 114k+ subscribers every other week.
1. Why Not? A radical proposal for improving schools. 📚
“Nothing against actuaries (median salary: $113,990), but isn’t helping a first-grader learn to read as valuable as assessing insurance premiums on your Hyundai Elantra?"
What if we paid America’s teachers more — a lot more?
That’s the idea I explore in the latest installment of our Washington Post series.
You can read the brand new column here or by clicking the image below.
For more on the Why Not? project . . .
Read the inaugural column, which explains our effort to create a new kind of journalism that delivers an adrenaline shot to America’s imagination.
Contribute a Why Not? Idea of your own. Use this Washington Post link or email the idea directly to me at whynot@danielpink.com. Meantime, thanks for the more than 500 ideas we’ve already received! More on those in future issues.
2. Pink Recommends. Friction, fiction, and more . . . 📖📽️🎶📶
Our ever-popular collection of recommendations is back!
READ: Two Stanford profs show how to eliminate the annoying forces that slow you down and make you miserable.
WATCH: American Fiction is the best film I’ve seen in a while — and one of the finest films I’ve ever seen about being a writer. (Streaming on Amazon Prime.)
LISTEN: Questlove made a playlist of energizing tracks, which I’ve had on endless repeat for the last three weeks. Thanks, Questlove!
TRY: Know anybody who’s had their iPhone stolen? To avoid their sorry fate, activate Apple’s new Stolen Device Protection Feature. It’s a godsend.
3. Final thoughts. This is how to feel more grateful. 🌟
Gratitude is powerful. It boosts our well-being and deepens our sense of meaning. But it can also be elusive.
This Pinkcast, which remains one of our most popular, reveals a simple mental trick for feeling more grateful. You can watch the 102-second video by clicking the image below.
That’s it for this edition. Thank you for being a subscriber.