Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

When people know the desired destination, they’re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.

Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit

Stories are flight simulators for our brains.

There's no such thing as a passive audience.

What’s broken, and how do we fix it?

The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.