This explains why we often undercommunicate our ideas. They’re already so familiar to us that we underestimate how much exposure an audience needs to… - Adam Grant

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds.” Albert Einstein

It’s more important to be good ancestors than dutiful descendants. Too many people spend their lives being custodians of the past instead of stewards of the future. We worry about making our parents proud when we should be focused on making our children proud. The responsibility of each generation is not to please our predecessors — it’s to improve conditions for our successors.

those who can’t . . . don’t know they can’t. According to what’s now known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, it’s when we lack competence that we’re most likely to be brimming with overconfidence.