It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

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.

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

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try.

Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.