It's not about how smart you are. It's about your values.
One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.
If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.
My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more.