Struggle is harder to see in other people’s lives, so we mistakenly believe it troubles us more than it does them.

The haphazardness of success across careers is known as the random impact rule,

listen” to his imagination.

There are several ways to cultivate a practice of curiosity. The first is to ask questions relentlessly about concepts you’ve historically taken for granted.

There are two ways to experiment.

one crucial obstacle might prevent Poler from achieving those outcomes. The

even unwanted constraints are agents of simplification.

Is the way things are right now optimal—or, adopting a lower standard, acceptable?

Nobel Prize winners and inventors similarly do most of their best work between their late thirties and early forties.