A critic looking at these tightly focused, targeted interventions might dismiss them as Band-Aid solutions. But that phrase should not be considered … - Malcolm Gladwell

The Band-Aid is an inexpensive, convenient, and remarkably versatile solution to an astonishing array of problems.

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that’s the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time-sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today? To

I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each.

That late bloomers bloom late because they simply aren't much good until late in their careers.