[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

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

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

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