More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.

Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.

More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.

What did you try hard at today?

Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.