It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.

The successful are those who have been given opportunities.

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.

Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made-on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.