[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the ….

The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight gl….

You may hate Hillary Clinton and you may have good reason for hating Hillary Clinton, but Hillary Clinton is one person who even if she's elected wil….

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out..

If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kin….

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integ….

I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hot….

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the se….

I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way.….

Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?.

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 insi….

Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are li….

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are..

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first..

Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback..

There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to take things that ….

The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, t….

Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the sp….

All artists have to do that at a certain point. This shift that has to happen between the initial moment of creation and then the consideration of wh….

When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I think that's actually cool.….

Achievement is talent plus preparation.