Sublime

circular management.”

“Teacher turnover . . . may in fact move us closer to an optimal allocation of teachers to schools.”

learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge, even when that means performing poorly on tests of immediate progress.

In the wicked world, with ill-defined challenges and few rigid rules, range can be a life hack.

monozukuri—literally, “thing making.”

The trick was expanding the organization’s range by identifying the dominant culture and then diversifying it by pushing in the opposite direction.

“that sheer amount of lesson or practice time is not a good indicator of exceptionality.”

The most successful experts also belong to the wider world. “To him who observes them from afar,” said Spanish Nobel laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the father of modern neuroscience, “it appears as though they are scattering and dissipating their energies, while in reality they are channeling and strengthening them.”

Instead of asking whether someone is gritty, we should ask when they are.