People don't rise from nothing.

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.

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

being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience

Achievement is talent plus preparation

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.