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Epstein makes the case that starting late or switching fields is nothing to be ashamed of. No matter where you are in life, you have as good a chance as anyone to become one of the greats—your unique history may even give you the upper hand.

They were trying to turn a conceptual problem they didn’t understand into a procedural one they could just execute.

Forbes researchers enumerate such modern leadership skills as:

• Resiliency

• Culture management

• Multi-generational management

• Collaboration

• Emotional intelligence

Parkinson’s Law states that work contracts or expands to fill the time you allot for it.

Moravec’s paradox: machines and humans frequently have opposite strengths and weaknesses.

Himalayan mountain climbers—5,104 expedition groups in all—found that teams from countries that strongly valued hierarchical culture got more climbers to the summit, but also had more climbers die along the way. The trend did not hold for solo climbers, only teams, and the researchers argued that hierarchical teams benefitted from a clear chain of

Instead of working back from a goal, work forward from promising situations. This is what most successful people actually do anyway.