Our conversations this week were pretty wide ranging...ways to add "recklessness" to our lives, the benefits and risks of using lists, the plight of the electric car, ethics in research, and the differences between introversion and extraversion. I'm still processing the debate about whether we can "safely" add recklessness to our daily routines...obviously this is a contradiction in terms, but I like the underlying message...to break out of the routine, to expand our comfort zone. I think that as creatures of habit, most of us would find even some of the small changes presented in the reading as quite challenging...which relates directly to the obsession we have with lists. Do we love lists because they provide structure to the unknown? On a fundamental level, don't lists decrease our spontaneity? My advice for adding recklessness to your life...become involved. I'd like to see us all become inspired to take a stand for issues that are important to us...like developing new sources of engery and forms of technology that will help us preserve the environment (e.g., the electric car). And there is the connection for this entry! To read more about the importance of recklessness, visit the Reckless Blog. To hear director Chris Paine talk about his documentary, listen to the NPR interview What Happened to the Electric Car?. Finally, if you are interested in considering the dangerous link between to-do lists and procrastination, read Is the To-Do List Doing You In?.