What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness.

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence." To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like "knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.