Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
Everything that can be tested must be tested,
But so much of what is beautiful and valuable in the world comes from the shepherd, who has more strength and purpose than we ever imagine.
Arousal leaves us mind-blind.
All of us, when it comes to personality, naturally think in terms of absolutes: that a person is a certain way or is not a certain way. But what Zimbardo and Hartshorne and May are suggesting is that...
The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point.
Our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what li...
What the Israelites saw, from high on the ridge, was an intimidating giant. In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness. There is an important...
We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that—sometimes—we’re better off that way. 1.
We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that-sometimes-we’re better off that way.
We have, in short, somehow become convinced that we need to tackle the whole problem, all at once. But the truth is that we don’t. We only need to find the stickiness Tipping Points,
To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.
They have a national policy where they have no ability grouping until the age of ten. Denmark waits to make selection decisions until maturity differences by age have evened out.
There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable.
The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.
That late bloomers bloom late because they simply aren't much good until late in their careers.
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.
So what does correlate with brain size? The answer, Dunbar argues, is group size. If you look at any species of primate-at every variety of monkey and ape-the larger their neocortex is, the larger the...
Sesame Street succeeded because it learned how to make television sticky.
Of course, kids don't always like repetition. Whatever they are watching has to be complex enough to allow, upon repeated exposure, for deeper and deeper levels of comprehension. At the same time, it...