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People need to be encouraged. Eugene Lang believed in these kids and it made all the difference in how they lived the rest of their lives. The article goes on to show Lang’s impact: Lang’s students speak confidently of becoming architects, computer experts, entrepreneurs of all types.
John C. Maxwell • Be a People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships
Fermi and the Manhattan Project embodied an age of discovery that rewarded quality over quantity in expertise. In nuclear physics, the 1930s and 1940s were an age of fundamental breakthroughs, and when it came to making those breakthroughs, one Enrico Fermi was worth thousands of less brilliant physicists. American leadership in this era was built
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the average Homo sapiens is probably incapable of intimately knowing more than 150 individuals.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Even when experts are willing to recognize the role of the mind, they continue to insist that it’s all innate!
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
As my thesis advisor, the anthropologist Michael Jackson,
Matt Bieber • Life in the Loop: Essays on OCD
So says physicist and educator Eric Mazur of Harvard.
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
The clinical psychologist Lisa Damour says that regarding friendship for girls, “quality trumps quantity.” The happiest girls “aren’t the ones who have the most friendships but the ones who have strong, supportive friendships, even if that means having a single terrific friend.”[82] (She notes that this is true for boys as well.) Once girls flocked
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
