To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.

Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.