Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!
David and Goliath is a book about what happens when ordinary people confront giants.
David and Goliath is a book about what happens when ordinary people confront giants. By giants, I mean powerful opponents of all kinds—from armies and mighty warriors to disability, misfortune, and op...
Consider, for example, the following puzzle. I give you a large piece of paper, and I ask you to fold it over once, and then take that folded paper and fold it over again, and then again, and again, u...
But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance,...
But in the end it comes down to a matter of respect, and the simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice, and the most corsive tone of voice that a doctor can assume is a domina...
Biologists often talk about the ecology of an organism: 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 blo...
Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too...
Asian children can perform basic functions, such as addition, far more easily. Ask an English-speaking seven-year-old to add thirty-seven plus twenty-two in her head, and she has to convert the words...
Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much - or more - from one glan...
Achievement is talent plus preparation.
A vervet, in other words, is very good at processing certain kinds of vervetish information, but not so good at processing other kinds of information.
When we understand how much culture and history and the world outside of the individual matter to professional success--then ... We have a way to successes out of the unsucessful.
Mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.
They were not really afraid. They were just afraid of being afraid.
. . 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...
Being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience
As it may be—matters. 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 cruc...
You don’t start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it’s the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.