{"id":5655,"date":"2019-02-01T06:23:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=5655"},"modified":"2019-02-01T06:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:23:16","slug":"how-to-become-an-attractive-human-the-value-of-understanding-the-lives-of-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/how-to-become-an-attractive-human-the-value-of-understanding-the-lives-of-others\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Become an Attractive Human: The Value of Understanding the Lives of Others"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as we finished this New Year\u2019s issue on creating leads, I came across an article in\u00a0Stanford\u00a0<\/em>magazine titled \u201cHow to Become a Successful Human.\u201d<\/p>\n

The article expresses the university\u2019s concern about a growing trend it sees: fewer and fewer students are taking courses in humanities, instead favoring subjects with a more utilitarian bent, such as technology, engineering, law, and medicine.<\/p>\n

The number of students majoring in Stanford\u2019s humanities departments has declined by 25 percent in the past two decades, the articles states. English and history, among the five most popular majors a few years ago, have been eclipsed by computer science, human biology, engineering, and economics. Only 10 to 18 percent of the university\u2019s undergraduate applicants indicate a primary interest in the humanities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this era of anxiety about graduates finding jobs, the humanities are the subject of an intense debate about relevance and value,\u201d the article continues. \u201cAdd to that a nationwide push to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as the key to America\u2019s future well-being, and humanities can be a tough sell.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities and Arts Debra Satz summarizes the problem she sees: \u201cStudying the humanities\u2014deeply engaging with other societies, with other ways of seeing and ways of doing\u2014is important for living in a globalized world. If the humanities become marginal in our undergraduate education, then an important tool we have for understanding the lives of others will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the editor points out, humanities provide us with:<\/p>\n