If you make your app 10% easier to use you'll get twice as many users. - Paul Graham

When a misbehaving child knows he's going to have to give in and do as he's told, the final stage of resistance is to do it really slowly.

The other thing that's different about the real world [compared to high school] is that it's much larger. In a large enough pool, even the smallest minorities can achieve a critical mass if they clump together.

Be careful about spreading the idea that adversity leads to success. It may, in some cases, but you want to be precise about which cases, and sure of your evidence. Otherwise you're implicitly telling parents to maltreat their kids.