In the end, the Impressionists made the right choice, which is one of the reasons that their paintings hang in every major art museum in the world. B… - Malcolm Gladwell

When Bruhn and Wolf first presented their findings to the medical community, you can imagine the kind of skepticism they faced. They went to conferences where their peers were presenting long rows of data arrayed in complex charts and referring to this kind of gene or that kind of physiological process, and they themselves were talking instead about the mysterious and magical benefits of people stopping to talk to one another on the street and of having three generations under one roof. Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were — that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made — on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.