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.
Those who are successful at creating social epidemics do not just do what they think is right. They deliberately test their intuitions.
There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.
There are, I think, two important lessons here. The first is that truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. [...] The second lesson is that in g...
The talent myth assumes that people make organizations smart. More often than not, it’s the other way around.
The powerful are not as powerful as they seem – nor the weak as weak
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding.
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.
Owe no one anything except to love one another;
It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone.
It is a strange thing, isn’t it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with your child as competitors for the attention of the teacher and not allies in...
If you make a decision about who is good and who is not good at an early age; if you separate the talented from the untalented; and if you provide the talented with a superior experience, then you’re...
I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill...
Gosh darn it, Gau said, if you don’t try, you’ll never succeed. 10.
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into some...
For half the young men, that was it. They were the control group. For the other half, there was a catch. As they walked down the hallway with their questionnaire, a man—a confederate of the experiment...
For almost a generation, psychologists around the world have been engaged in a spirited debate over a question that most of us would consider to have been settled years ago. The question is this: is t...
Don’t depend on heaven for food, but on your own two hands carrying the load.
Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that f...