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.

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.

I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.

That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.