The trickster is not a trickster by nature. He is a trickster by necessity.
Because we do not know how to talk to strangers, what do we do when things go awry with strangers? We blame the stranger.
To become a success at what they did, they had to shed some part of their own identity, because the deep respect for authority that runs throughout Korean culture simply does not work in the cockpit.
Understanding the power of the underdog requires an effort. It requires standing up to conventional wisdom.
High-tech companies like Google or Microsoft carefully measure the cognitive abilities of prospective employees out of the same belief: they are convinced that those at the very top of the IQ scale have the greatest potential.
We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have “it” or you don’t. But to Schoenfeld, it’s not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That’s what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students. Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.
We start by believing. And we stop believing only when our doubts and misgivings rise to the point where we can no longer explain them away.
The death of Sandra Bland is what happens when a society does not know how to talk to strangers.
Transparency is the idea that people’s behavior and demeanor – the way they represent themselves on the outside – provides an authentic and reliable window into the way they feel on the inside.
Schools work. The only problem with school, for the kids who aren’t achieving, is that there isn’t enough of it.
Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.
But we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people in positions of privilege close the door on those on the outside.
And everyone knows that it’s better to have an expert show you – and not just tell you – how to play tennis or golf or a musical instrument. We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instructions.
The fatalism of Russian peasant proverbs is contrasted with the self-reliance of Chinese ones by.
What is an outlier?
When we make a split-second decision,” Payne says, “we are really vulnerable to being guided by our stereotypes and prejudices, even ones we may not necessarily endorse or believe.
The Stickiness Factor says that there are specific ways of making a contagious message memorable; there are relatively simple changes in the presentation and structuring of information that can make a big difference in how much of an impact it makes.
Roseto Valfortore lies one hundred miles southeast of Rome in the Apennine foothills.
When you write down your thoughts, your chances of having the flash of insight you need in order to come up with a solution are significantly impaired.
We have seen,” Terman concluded, with more than a touch of disappointment, “that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.