Schools could do the same thing. Elementary and middle schools could put the January through April–born students in one class, the May through August in another class, and those born in September thro...
Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
Two Dutch researchers did a study in which they had groups of students answer forty-two fairly demanding questions from the board game Trivial Pursuit. Half were asked to take five minutes beforehand...
The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind a locked door inside of our brain - but just because something is out...
Narcissists typically make judgments with greater confidence than other people… and, because their judgments are rendered with such conviction, other people tend to believe them and the narcissists be...
In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.
Harlan that allowed them to reproduce in the New World the culture of honor they had created in the Old World. To the first settlers, the American backcountry was a dangerous environment, just as the...
Gifted children and child prodigies seem most likely to emerge in highly supportive family conditions.In contrast, geniuses have a perverse tendency of growing up in more adverse conditions.
Knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys.
What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus...
They were so focused on the mechanics and the process that they never looked at the problem holistically. In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.
They lacked something that could have been given to them if we’d only known they needed it: a community around them that prepared them properly for the world.
The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called—appropriately enough—the Big Fish–Little Pond Effect. The more elite an educational institution is, the worse students feel about...
It's challenging, it's not hopeless. You have to come up with something. You have to figure out a way to help them, because people must have hope to live.
Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and to be willing to challenge their own preconceptions.
In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.
Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur.
You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a c...
He waits for the kid to decide whether to pull the gun up or simply to drop it - and all the while, even as he tracks the progress of the gun, he is also watching the kid's face, to see whether he is...
It was not the privileged and the fortunate who took in the Jews in France. It was the marginal and the damaged, which should remind us that there are real limits to what evil and misfortune can accom...