Achievement is talent plus preparation.
The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And through...
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningf...
Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
Knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys.
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
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...
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...
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.
In the six degrees of separation, not all degrees are equal.
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...
Our power of thin-slicing and snap judgment are extraordinary.but even the giant computer in our unconscious need a moment to do its work.
Extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.
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...
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.
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...
Emotion is contagious.
Arousal leaves us mind-blind.
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...