Understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.
Under time pressure, they began to behave just as people do when they are highly aroused. they stopped relying on the actual evidence of their senses and fell back on a rigid and unyielding system, a...
Though she isn’t stupid at all. Wow, other people are mastering this, even people who were as clueless as I was in the beginning, and I just can’t seem to learn to think in this manner. 5. Caroline Sa...
Those at the very top of the class—are going to face a burden that they would not face in a less competitive atmosphere. Citizens of happy countries have higher suicide rates than citizens of unhappy...
Think, for example, has a higher suicide rate: countries whose citizens declare themselves to be very happy, such as Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, the Netherlands, and Canada? or countries like Greec...
The thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That’s it. And what’s more, the people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone els...
The tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich,...
That made the unfamiliar familiar.
Soldiers serving in the Military Police and those serving in the Air Corps (the forerunner of the Air Force) about how good a job they thought their service did in recognizing and promoting people of...
Power has an important limitation. It has to be seen as legitimate, or else its use has the opposite of its intended effect.
Potatoes, melons, and fruit trees in the long backyards behind their houses. He gave out seeds and bulbs. The town came to life. The Rosetans began raising pigs in their backyards and growing grapes f...
Look at the last column, which totals up all the summer gains from first grade to fifth grade. The reading scores of the poor kids go up by .26 points. When it comes to reading skills, poor kids learn...
General intelligence and practical intelligence are orthogonal: the presence of one doesn't imply the presence of the other.
[Chris Langan] told me not long ago. I found if I go to bed with a question on my mind, all I have to do is concentrate on the question before I go to sleep and I virtually always have the answer in t...
You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That’s what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students.
You can’t concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, What’s gonna happen if it doesn’t go right?
You can take a pitchman and make a great actor out of him, but you cannot take an actor and always make a great pitchman out of him, he says. The pitchman must make you applaud and take out your money...
Working really hard is what successful people do,
Working really hard is what successful people do, and the genius of the culture formed in the rice paddies is that hard work gave those in the fields a way to find meaning in the midst of great uncert...
Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.