When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

In historical sciences, one can provide a posteriori explanations (e.g., why an asteroid impact on Earth 66 million years ago may have driven dinosaurs but not many other species to extinction), but a priori predictions are more difficult.

Trend #1. Minds vs. MachinesInitially, machines had to be coded with everything they knew. Today, machines can comb through vast amounts of big data to identify underlying patterns which are not obvious. In this way, machines are learning and are advancing so rapidly that in most settings, they can now routinely outperform humans. Mind-and-machine combinations will grow in power and value exponentially in the years ahead.

Heroes can get surprise assistance, but it's best for the hero to be the one to perform the decisive action; to deliver the death blow to fear or the Shadow; to be active rather than passive, at this of all times.

There was nothing cooler than knowing that for that hour at practice, we were the most important thing to him.

By ruthlessly reducing the shallow while preserving the deep, this strategy frees up our time without diminishing the amount of new value we generate.

The world is much safer than we’ve been led to believe, and our child needs to learn how to thrive in it rather than be protected from it.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

I thought motivation was a prerequisite to starting a tedious learning process—a spark necessary to get me going. But motivation is really a result. Motivation is the fire that starts burning after you manually, painfully, coax it into existence, and it feeds on the satisfaction of seeing yourself make progress.

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.