Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

Talk less and listen more.

Our economic and market principles were very different from most others, which accounted for our different results. As former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan put it, “The models failed at a time when we needed them most . . . JP Morgan had the American economy accelerating three days before [the Lehman Brothers’ collapse]—their model failed. The Fed model failed. The IMF model failed . . . So that left me asking myself: What happened?

We shall slow time

It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

It IS Possible To Adopt a Growth Mindset In Adulthood

The more we can speak about impulses and reactions we have in relation to our baby and have them understood and accepted, the more we are able to reflect and to perceive the baby as a baby and not as an object on to which we are unknowingly projecting a monster or a ghost from our past.

Desirable difficulty is the hard work of doing hard work. Setting ourselves up for things that cause a struggle, because we know that after the struggle, we’ll be at a new level.

Who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, and view their contributions.