To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish.
To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for maximum effect.
There’s no possibility of being pessimistic when people are dependent on you for their only optimism.
There is a concept in cognitive psychology called the channel capacity, which refers to the amount of space in our brain for certain kinds of information.
The Power of Context is an environmental argument. It says that behavior is a function of social context.
That the best students from mediocre schools were almost always a better bet than good students from the very best schools.
People are in one of two states in a relationship. The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotions overrides irritability.
Not long after I learned about Frozen, I went to see a friend of mine who works in the music industry. We sat in his living room on the Upper East Side, facing each other in easy chairs, as he worked...
If a revolution is not accessible, tangible, and replicable, how on earth can it be a revolution?
Having a parent incarcerated increases a child’s chances of juvenile delinquency between 300 and 400 percent; it increases the odds of a serious psychiatric disorder by 250 percent.
Graham states, Because average country income levels do not matter to happiness, but relative distances from the average do, the poor Honduran is happier because their distance from mean income is sma...
Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the work will be done by 20 percent of the participants. In most societies, 20 percent of...
David and Goliath is a book about what happens when ordinary people confront giants.
Chapter One Vivek Ranadivé IT WAS REALLY RANDOM. I MEAN, MY FATHER HAD NEVER PLAYED BASKETBALL BEFORE. 1. When Vivek Ranadivé decided to coach his daughter Anjali’s basketball team, he settled on two...
But the problem was, Sacks wasn’t comparing herself to all the students in the world taking Organic Chemistry. She was comparing herself to her fellow students at Brown. She was a Little Fish in one o...
. . it is not possible to staff a large company without short people. There simply aren't enough tall people to go around.
Do we as a society need people who have emerged from some kind of trauma. And the answer is that we plainly do. There are times and places however when all of us depend on people who have been hardene...
What we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act—and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment...
Understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.
The logic of the inverted-U curve is that the same strategies that work really well at first stop working past a certain point,
