Ryan Brown is the managing director for measurement at the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He earned his Ph.D. in social and personality psychology from the University of Texas-Austin. He is the author of Honor Bound: How a Cultural Ideal Has Shaped the American Psyche.
Imagine you got up one morning and went through your normal routine—as you crack open the newspaper, you are met with an alarming headline: The Statue of Liberty Has Been Attacked.