Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe. Values are your core principles in life—they

Most people think of arguments as being like a pair of scales: the more reasons we can pile up on our side, the more it will tip the balance in our favor. Yet the experts did the exact opposite: They actually presented fewer reasons to support their case. They didn’t want to water down their best points. As Rackham put it, “A weak argument generall

How do you know? It’s a question we need to ask more often, both of ourselves and of others.

They ended up calling her Megu, which translates literally to “mother” and is also a term of endearment for elders.

You can be confident in your ability to achieve a goal in the future while maintaining the humility to question whether you have the right tools in the present. That’s the sweet spot of confidence.

Mental horsepower doesn’t guarantee mental dexterity. No matter how much brainpower you have, if you lack the motivation to change your mind, you’ll miss many occasions to think again.

Uncertainty primes us to ask questions and absorb new ideas. It protects us against the Dunning-Kruger effect. “Impostor syndrome always keeps me on my toes and growing because I never think I know it all,”

The less intelligent we are in a particular domain, the more we seem to overestimate our actual intelligence in that domain.

A mark of lifelong learners is recognizing that they can learn something from everyone they meet.