Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.

You might want to keep trying to rise, using a path that builds on your natural strengths: sales, analysis, managing people, whatever, and keep asking for honest feedback. When you reach the point at which it feels clear you've topped out, revise your job description or take a step back. Up is not the only way.

Entrepreneurship may be the most under-taught subject.

I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.

Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.

We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.