The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

Since becoming a journalist, each time I engage with subjects I become more radicalized.

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.