The first task of Blink is to convince you of a simple fact: decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and de… - Malcolm Gladwell

Biologists often talk about the “ecology” of an organism: the tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured. We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight that warmed them, the soil in which they put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid?

We are bad lie detectors in those situations when the person we’re judging is mismatched.

Working really hard is what successful people do...