...Even in the growth mindset, failure can be a painful experience. But it doesn’t define you. It’s a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from...

...10/10/10, we think about our decisions on three different time frames: How will we feel about it 10 minutes from now? How about 10 months from now? How about 10 years from now?...

...Sure, a manager could be quite good, but ultimately he also has to be quite lucky—and luck can often masquerade as talent when the latter is absent...

...I’m going to make a bold, daring generalization here. For the most part—at least when it comes to financial and career decisions—people do not undertake enough risk...

...The right sort of practice carried out over a sufficient period of time leads to improvement. Nothing else...

...Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional. The key is to find the meaning in the mundane and power in your purpose...

...The simple question “What would great look like right now?” is completely disarming. It demands that people reflect on their own contribution to great results. It stops emotional waste in its tracks. It relies on a positive belief that everyone is capable and smart and knows what great looks like...

...When you’re debating a material purchase, usually let the tightwad win. When you’re debating an experiential purchase, usually let the spendthrift win...

...another reason so many of us often feel overloaded is because of something called the planning fallacy.1 This describes the fact that we typically expect tasks to take less time than they actually do, because we base our estimates on one standout memory—our best past experience—rather than the average time it’s taken us to do similar tasks in the past...

...They want people who can work well in a team, but who can execute operations by themselves (most operations are solo). They want people who will plan and fully coordinate their operations in advance, but who are able to make changes on the fly, according to circumstances...

...Have we decided what the primary ten things are that we hope to achieve in retirement? What sort of habits do we want to develop? What’s going to get us to where we want to be during those years?...

...The fallibility of human beings guarantees that no technological system will ever be infallible...

...eight out of ten times people will reach the best conclusion on their own. But the other two times you need to make the hard decision and expect that everyone will rally around it...

...Stress is what arises when something you care about is at stake. This definition is big enough to hold both the frustration over traffic and the grief over a loss. It includes your thoughts, emotions, and physical reactions when you’re feeling stressed, as well as how you choose to cope with situations you’d describe as stressful. This definition also highlights an important truth about stress: Stress and meaning are inextricably linked. You don’t stress out about things you don’t care about, and you can’t create a meaningful life without experiencing some stress...

...Every systemic market injustice arose from some loophole in a regulation created to correct some prior injustice...

...Questions you can wait hours to learn the answers to are fine to put in an email. Questions that require answers in the next few minutes can go into an instant message. For crises that truly merit a sky-is-falling designation, you can use that old-fashioned invention called the telephone...

...In general, TV makes us worry about the wrong things. Your brain is better at filtering out media hype when it is reading. Words have less emotional salience than images. So it’s much healthier to read the news than watch it...

...The rewards and recognition that stem from being great at something will make you passionate about whatever that something is...

...From wrestling an alligator to evading drones to landing an airplane if the pilot passes out, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is here to help with expert, illustrated, step-by-step instructions for the best ways to tackle life's sudden turns for the worse...

...Prophets look at the world as finite, and people as constrained by their environment. Wizards see possibilities as inexhaustible, and humans as wily managers of the planet. One views growth and development as the lot and blessing of our species; others regard stability and preservation as our future and our goal. Wizards regard Earth as a toolbox, its contents freely available for use; Prophets think of the natural world as embodying an overarching order that should not casually be disturbed...