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 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...
In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.
When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not...
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.
We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight
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...
Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish
In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.
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.
Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur.
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...
When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters—first and foremost—how they behave.
The idea that excellence at performing a complex task requires a critical minimum level of practice surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they bel...
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...
It was an admission of defeat. ... He knew he needed to do a better job of navigating the world, but he didn't know how. He couldn't even talk to his calculus teacher, for goodness' sake. These were t...
Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.
We pretend that success is exclusively a matter of individual merit. But there's nothing in any of the histories we've looked at so far to suggest things are that simple. These are stories, instead, a...