We miss the effects of randomness in life because when we assess the world, we tend to see what we expect to see. We in effect define degree of talent by degree of success and then reinforce our feeli...
Well, I have been working on my own theory for twelve years, and then he proceeded to describe it in excruciating detail. When he was finished, Feynman turned to me and said, in front of the man who h...
Few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received,15 Lerner concluded that for the sake of their own...
Deep concentration causes the energy consumption in your brain to go up by only about 1 percent. No matter what you are doing with your conscious mind, it is your unconscious that dominates your menta...
Historians, whose profession is to study the past, are as wary as scientists of the idea that events unfold in a manner that can be predicted.
It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong. —Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, 1993
My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality.
That’s why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set—the set of people who don’t give up.
A bishop should not be condemned except with seventy-two witnesses… a cardinal priest should not be condemned except with forty-four witnesses, a cardinal deacon of the city of Rome without thirty-six...
The destination was the local cemetery, where everyone was ordered to dig a mass grave and then was shot dead and buried in it.
While your unconscious mind is working feverishly to do all those things, you can relax in bed, recognizing, seemingly without effort, the lighting fixture on the ceiling—or the words in this book.
Your own species ends up with a name like that when you get to choose it
A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees farther of the two
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself
CARL JUNG BELIEVED that to learn about the human experience, it was important to study dreams and mythology. History is the story of events that played out in civilization, but dreams and myths are ex...
I wouldn’t have to drop out of academia and take a more lucrative position waiting tables at the faculty club.
Just as, looking at a Rorschach blot, you might see Madonna and I, a duck-billed platypus, the data we encounter in business, law, medicine, sports, the media, or your child’s third-grade report card...
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