Those three things - autonomy, complexity and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to h… - Malcolm Gladwell

Maybe when a woman shows up in a courtroom wearing a niqab, the correct response isn't to dismiss her case — it's to require that everyone wear a veil

Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play — and by “we” I mean society — in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.