The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously the people of the book. There is surely something to that. But it...
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...
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...
Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.
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...
All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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.
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...
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.
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.
The 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success
You have to be outside the establishment—a foreigner new to the game
Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.
When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters—first and foremost—how they behave.
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 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...
In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.