Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.
Create a need for closure.
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.
The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.
Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.