In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national ho….

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking..

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good..

I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting ….

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome..

Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by 20 percent ….

Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way.….

I don't like things that aren't true..

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..

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't..

If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too..

The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom..

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are..

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world..

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire..

The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on th….

What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily..

People are in one of two states in a relationship,” Gottman went on. “The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion ov….

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achi….

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent..

The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages….