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

Answering ads rarely works for career changers because you have no experience in the job for which you're applying.

You need to create a 30-minute buffer between the end of your work time and sleep time.

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

When you're going to school primarily for career purposes, it's more important to focus on which program is best for you. In addition, your success at college depends far more on what you do at the college than at which college you do it: Choosing the right program, then the right advisor, the right courses, the right term papers, the right co-curricular activities, the right fieldwork, the right internships. You can make those choices at any college.

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

Essayists write at a length that enables them, within a year, to explore a number of topics, whereas in a book, they'll likely only get to address one.