Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.

The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

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

When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.

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.

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