Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success

The tough part about negative feedback is in separating ourselves from the perceived failure and turning our experiences into objective experiments.

LET’S TAKE A DEEPER look at the fastest-climbing US presidents. The ones who bring down the average time spent on the political ladder. Here they are:

“True success is not defined by how much money do I make, how well do I speak, how well do I deal with the subjects I deal with,” he says. “But how great of a father I am.”

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

“a strong and decisive leader” is the number one characteristic a presidential candidate can have.

“paradox of failure.”

This is what that MIT mathematician Seymour Papert calls constructionism, or learning by making and manipulating objects. It’s incredibly effective for concept mastery and recall, and it’s almost always aided by platforms.

Lateral thinking doesn’t replace hard work; it eliminates unnecessary

I’ll explain why kids shouldn’t be taught multiplication tables, where the fashionable “fail fast and fail often” mantra of the Lean Startup movement breaks down, and how momentum—not experience—is the single biggest predictor of business and personal success.