Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects..

What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me within the constraints of st….

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning..

That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introsp….

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?".

Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop..

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves..

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table..

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distrib….

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, en….

If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of infl….

I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?.

The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the ep….

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success..

I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away..

For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing ….

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility..

The successful are those who have been given opportunities..

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them..

Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our genes. It depended on the decisi….

Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before..