Our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what li...
Complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
Working really hard is what successful people do,
We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that—sometimes—we’re better off that way. 1.
We live in a world that assumes that the quality of a decision is directly related to the time and effort that went into making it...We believe that we are always better off gathering as much informat...
To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.
Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable.
Their research suggests that once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That’s it. And what...
The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.
Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and l...
Sesame Street succeeded because it learned how to make television sticky.
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...
My social circle is, in reality, not a circle. It is a pyramid. And at the top of the pyramid is a single person—Jacob—who is responsible for an overwhelming majority of the relationships that constit...
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...
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
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...
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.
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...
