Last week I wrote about bullying. I shared my own experiences of being bullied at school and later at work, and talked about Amy Cuddy's recent work on bullying and social bravery. I wasn't expecting the response I got. I received a lot of private messages. Some were from people telling me what had happened to them. Some were from people who had witnessed bullying and never stepped in, and were still thinking about it years later. Some were genuinely disturbing. A few turned

When I was twelve years old, I was the most academically successful student in my classroom for a long while. Getting into our school was kind of a big deal. In Turkey’s high-stakes education system, we had all spent two grueling years — from nine to eleven years old — studying for a nationwide standardized test. We spent our weekdays, weekends, and endless hours at school, in cram schools and at home with private tutors to earn our seats. Everyone in that building was ambit