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

what truly distinguishes their histories is not their extraordinary talent but their extraordinary opportunities.

It’s knowledge that helps you read situations correctly and get what you want.

What Wolf began to realize was that the secret of Roseto wasn’t diet or exercise or genes or location. It had to be Roseto itself. As Bruhn and Wolf walked around the town, they figured out why. They looked at how the Rosetans visited one another, stopping to chat in Italian on the street, say, or cooking for one another in their backyards. They

But before he could become an expert, someone had to give him the opportunity to learn how to be an expert.

“Power Distance Index” (PDI). Power distance is concerned with attitudes toward hierarchy, specifically with how much a particular culture values and respects authority. To measure it, Hofstede asked questions like “How frequently, in your experience, does the following problem occur: employees being afraid to express disagreement with their

“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”

The small initial advantage that the child born in the early part of the year has over the child born at the end of the year persists. It locks children into patterns of achievement and underachievement, encouragement and discouragement, that stretch on and on for years.

educational researcher at the University of Pennsylvania named Erling Boe,