People don't respond to objective difficulty, they respond to delta from expectation. - Kpaxs

The fastest personality test is giving someone a tiny amount of authority over someone who cannot easily punish them back.

If you never really try, you never really fail. The gap between your performance and your potential can always be attributed to effort rather than ability.

This is not laziness. It is, in most cases, a sophisticated self-protection strategy operating below the level of conscious awareness.

People choose small lives because small games offer the narcotic comfort of never being publicly tested.