Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
Sesame Street succeeded because it learned how to make television sticky.
People are in one of two states in a relationship, Gottman went on. The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It’s like a buffer. Their spous...
Over the past decade, the anti-smoking movement has railed against the tobacco companies for making smoking cool and has spent untold millions of dollars of public money trying to convince teenagers t...
Of course, kids don't always like repetition. Whatever they are watching has to be complex enough to allow, upon repeated exposure, for deeper and deeper levels of comprehension. At the same time, it...
Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of i...
It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments, Seán MacStiofáin, the provisional IRA’s first chief of s...
It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments,
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
In the end, Tipping Points are the reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action.
If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.
If you are a white person who would like to treat black people as equals in every way—who would like to have a set of associations with blacks that are as positive as those that you have with whites—i...
How you feel about your abilities—your academic self-concept—in the context of your classroom shapes your willingness to tackle challenges and finish difficult tasks. It’s a crucial element in your mo...
Gosh darn it, Gau said, if you don’t try, you’ll never succeed. 10.
Emotion is contagious.
But so much of what is beautiful and valuable in the world comes from the shepherd, who has more strength and purpose than we ever imagine.
All of us, when it comes to personality, naturally think in terms of absolutes: that a person is a certain way or is not a certain way. But what Zimbardo and Hartshorne and May are suggesting is that...
Achievement is talent plus preparation.
A Connector might tell ten friends where to stay in Los Angeles, and half of them might take his advice. A Maven might tell five people where to stay in Los Angeles but make the case for the hotel so...
I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a sig...