You know more than you know.

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.