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The issue is that personality is extremely individual. Traits that play a critical role in peak performance—such as your risk tolerance or where you land on the introversion-to-extroversion scale—are genetically coded, neurobiologically hardwired, and difficult to change. Add in all the possible environmental influences that come from variations in

All that detail, but nothing that makes a difference to the task at hand—his choice of future flatmate.

Whether professionals have a chance to develop intuitive expertise depends essentially on the quality and speed of feedback, as well as on sufficient opportunity to practice.

Nature has no use for organisms, variations, or groups that cannot reproduce abundantly.

Like all examples, Bear is imperfect (don’t tell his mother I said that). I talked about his individual behavior, and yet usually behavior change isn’t about a specific person but rather about changing the likelihood of a behavior across a much larger group: team, organization, city, nation—as we said in the behavioral statement, a population. And

combining objects of the same generic group that do not cluster towards a common centre; no more should we attempt to compose generic portraits out of heterogeneous elements, for if we do so the result is monstrous and meaningless.”

First, we have a fire hydrant (hydrogen) with helium-filled balloons (helium) tied to the top of the hydrant. The helium balloons are touching the light bulb (lithium). The light bulb is burning the different berries (beryllium). The berries are being eaten by a smelly wild boar (boron). A car with a bun attached to it (carbon)

First you have to turn the reality into an abstraction. Then you do your logical reasoning in the abstract world. Then finally you have to turn that back into reality again. Different people are good at different parts of this process. But really the key part is being able to move back and forth between the abstract and the real.

Consider the case of Silver Blaze, that famous missing racehorse that no one can track down. When Holmes has had a chance to examine the premises, Inspector Gregson, who has failed to find something as seemingly impossible to miss as a horse, asks, “Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” Why yes, Holmes responds, “To the