If you make a decision about who is good and who is not good at an early age; if you separate the “talented” from the “untalented”; and if you provid… - Malcolm Gladwell

Whenever we have something that we are good at — something we care about — that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.

Telling teenagers about the health risks of smoking — It will make you wrinkled! It will make you impotent! It will make you dead! — is useless,” Harris concludes. “This is adult propaganda; these are adult arguments. It is because adults don’t approve of smoking — because there is something dangerous and disreputable about it — that teenagers want to do it.

I mean, it’s ridiculous,” Dhuey says. “It’s outlandish that our arbitrary choice of cutoff dates is causing these long-lasting effects, and no one seems to care about them.