If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.